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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"black literature"”.
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Erotic elsewhere: pleasure and fugitive evasion in contemporary Black literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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College and University English Departments and English Major Preparation in Black Literature
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The socio-political influence of rap music as poetry in the urban community
… that the untraditional means through which black literature has evolved and is not identical to European-based literature. He also insists that much black writing that existed through the mid-20th century stemmed directly from the sharing of jokes or through "burnt-out white Bohemians" …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
<p>This dissertation undertakes a black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and interdisciplinary in scope, I illuminate the ways in which black literature …
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We be talkin': Critical explorations into how Black adolescents experience a Black language book club
Deficit views about Black language have circulated throughout society since before desegregation. However, Black literary societies were used as a way to counter hegemony by developing the language of the Black community and continue to exist (Muhammad, 2021). This single case study sought to …
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Cane: the American Adam rekindled
… and as one of the first major contributions to black literature. However, critics have neglected to address its similarities to nineteenth-century American literature, and specifically how it continues a celebrated tradition dedicated to penetrating considerations of American identity. This …
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Jinjila: Caminhos Escreviventes da Ancestralidade Preta na Literatura-Terreiro Kimbundu-Baiana.
… which the discourses of Kimbundu-Bahian Terreiro-Literature are established as essential in the elaboration of epistemologies for reading and producing black literature. This work has as its guiding concept Black Ancestry, which I title in these lines because it is the matrix of all the …
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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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Considerações estéticas e políticas na obra de Lima Barreto: a emergência de um contexto biopolítico
… language, representation, the notion of militant literature, narrative space and the concept of Biopower and biopolitics developed by Michael Foucault. Firstly, the methodological form is constructed and how it can play an important and strategic role in our analysis. The genealogy of powers aims …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… 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 of his life and his works which reveal his sense of isolation, alienation, and disillusionment. This …
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The art and tradition of Black autobiography in the eighteenth century
… all forms of fictional and nonfictional works of literature. Articles and 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, …
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Invisible men: space, race, and housing in African American literature
… Space, Race, and Housing in African American Literature” uses an archive of novels written roughly between 1940 and 2000, American Sociology, the philosophy of phenomenology, and ethnography to argue that representations of housing in African American literature form part of a negative …
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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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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… African Americans during the nineteenth century, black-authored environmental writing from the era is conspicuously scant in studies and anthologies into the present, even in volumes devoted to ecocritically-inflected texts by authors of color. My dissertation argues that contemporary, …
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Signifying against antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in early African American writing
My dissertation, Signifying Against Antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in Early African American Writing, theorizes “Black Rhetoric” as a literary and theoretical tradition, distinct from the Anglo-American canon, that interrogates language as an apparatus of power. Through sermons, political pamphlets, …
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The Harlem Renaissance and The Negritude Movement: Literary Relations and Influences (New York City)
Historical circumstances indicate that literary relations between the writers of the Harlem Renaissance of those of the Negritude Movement are based upon thematic and stylistic similarities as well as mere literary analogies.
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After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
This study contributes to the reevaluation of sentimentalism, specifically examining the ways in which different authors appropriated sentimentalism to argue about slavery and race. It considers Mary Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), …