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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Black writers"”.
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The representation of the Ghost in contemporary South African novels by black writers
… of the ghost in South African novels by black writers. The reading is specific to the context of the ghosts haunting South Africa. I ask: how has the ghost been represented by black South African novelists, and what does it signal/tell? The thesis finds that there is a relative paucity of …
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The Evolution of Racial and Political Consciousness in Three Black Writers of Eighteenth-Century England
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… of African American culture has mediated black writers' engagement with written public discourse. Looking at such diverse works as slave narratives, essays, music books, serial fiction, autobiography, and the novel, this project demonstrates that the tension between aurality and the …
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Uma perspectiva autoetnográfica sobre a educação linguística de inglês por meio da literatura de autoria negra e outras mídias
… the non-use of literature written by black writers and other media in the teaching of English curricula. In the scope of this analysis, I reflect on contemporaneous theories of the linguistic education field in the English language in relation to didactic materials, pedagogies, …
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Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11
… government are arguments offered for analysis by black writers in the two years studied. This topic involves the social conditions of African Americans living within the United States during an era when major civil rights objectives were achieved. Also included are considerations of how living in …
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Nonfiction forms in contemporary poetry by Black and Asian American Writers
<p>Writers experiment with form inside poetry for various reasons, including a desire for play. Creating poetry is a creative process that involves experimentation. This research highlights poetry that adapts established nonfiction forms into poetry forms, examining poetry published in 2000-2024 by …
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"To liberate ourselves and each other" : reading the female community in the fiction of Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
… within the fiction of three American women writers: Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. I am specifically concerned with comparing the depiction of female community within white and Black female writers' works. The introduction to this project establishes a theoretical background …
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A mother's guide to dying
… has been controversial in the craft of writing, Black writers must stay vigilant examining how dialect is used In African American literature, with two ultimate goals; to give voice to community we represent, and to respect the authenticity while accurately recreating it. Most of the stories in …
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
… of racial caricature on the verse practices of black writers and performance artists in the blues tradition. Chapter 4, which builds on these insights, reassesses the formal practices of blues poets. Chiastic polyrhythms, blues-sonnet hybrids, and experimental uses of 12-bar phrasing are …
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Aloe and honey : tales from town and country
The Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There …
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Material factors affecting the publication of black British fiction
… material factors affecting the publication of black British fiction during the last three decades of the twentieth century. It argues that a study of the publishing history of black British fiction in this period must take into account wider political and cultural issues, as well as the …
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
Black Arts' writer Amiri Baraka observes in his essay "Northern Iowa: Short Story and Poetry," that "For black people, freedom is our aesthetic and our ideology." The focus on liberation has artistic and political resonance for African Americans. Freedom--as communal aesthetic and …
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Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afro-descendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba
… discusses different strategies implemented by black writers in order to contest the hegemonic model of a "white" male intellectual. Finally, in the last chapter I argue that contemporary recovery of certain characters and historical events reproduces gender and racial stereotypes and reinforces …
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"Into the Mainstream and Oblivion": Julian Mayfield's Black Radical Tradition, 1948-1984
… Julian Hudson Mayfield. As a member of the black Left, Mayfield’s life of activism and art bring the complex network of artists, activists, and political theorists who influenced the construction, tactics, and strategies of social movements during the latter half of the twentieth century …
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The Heart of a Woman: Curating the Present Inventory and Promoting Future Musical Settings of Texts by Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance gave rise to many great Black writers at the beginning of the 20th century. Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen are among familiar names. However, alongside these were women such as Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
Both published and unpublished materials from the writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1923-33) indicate that the focal point, the central meeting place of Black Bohemia, was the residence of Wallace Thurman. Thurman, a black writer, became a central figure of the renaissance movement largely because …
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The art and tradition of Black autobiography in the eighteenth century
… of autobiography has proved useful to writers of the last two hundred years, which have been characterized by increasing fragmentation of the unity of societies in the West. The breakdown of the commonality of values and aims has given each individual the difficult task of seeking his …
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The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories
Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts …
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White writings : colonialism and modernism in South African literature since 1970
… gathering crisis of their society impells white writers and intellectuals to question and revise long-held paradigms of thought and practices of representation, drawing on the resources of comparable revisions of established paradigms taking place in western thought. Equally, these writers and …