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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Black authors"”.
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From "sad black stories" to "useful tragedy": Trajectories of hope in Johannesburg from Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 to Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi
How do emerging black authors write about hope in contemporary Johannesburg, when the horizons of expectation for the present seem to have collapsed? This question informs this dissertation's engagement with Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 and Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi. The dissertation positions itself …
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Cast Upon The Shadows: Essays Toward The Culturalogic Turn In Critical Race Theory
Unlike many Black-specific disciplines in the academy (Black psychology, Black history, etc), Black philosophy never completely forged a unique conceptual framework separate from American and Continental intellectual traditions. Instead the field has continued to define its validity by the extent …
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… about the antebellum past enable later Southern authors to imagine present and future race relations in the South. I analyze how the particularities of the myriad afterlives of slavery – particularly in the economic, social, and political subjugation and terrorization of African Americans – are …
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
… of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novelist whose two volumes of short stories and three novels of purpose depict racial tensions present in the South during the post-Reconstruction era. He addressed a culture dominated by the myth of white superiority …
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Racism in novels : a comparative study of Brazilian and South African cultural history
… way it was reflected in the novels of two white authors – Alan Paton and Jorge Amado – and two black authors: Afonso Henrique Lima Barreto and Peter Henry Abrahams. Methodologically, this study is concerned with the use of literature as a source for social and cultural history. The selected …
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The art and tradition of Black autobiography in the eighteenth century
… books have appeared on religious and political authors, such as Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, and Eldridge Cleaver; while at the same time other studies have emerged dealing with the confessional mode in writing. Recent poets, such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg, who give various …