Jonoah And The Green Stone

Author : Henry Dumas
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonoah and the Green Stone written by Henry Dumas and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about what it was like for a young Black man from Arkansas to deal with the turbulence of the sixties.

Author : Richard Jean So
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552319
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redlining Culture written by Richard Jean So and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress—recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However, is this celebratory narrative borne out in the data? Richard Jean So draws on big data, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequality in American publishing that reveals the persistence of an extreme bias toward white authors. In fact, a defining feature of the publishing industry is its vast whiteness, which has denied nonwhite authors, especially black writers, the coveted resources of publishing, reviews, prizes, and sales, with profound effects on the language, form, and content of the postwar novel. Rather than seeing the postwar period as the era of multiculturalism, So argues that we should understand it as the invention of a new form of racial inequality—one that continues to shape the arts and literature today. Interweaving data analysis of large-scale patterns with a consideration of Toni Morrison’s career as an editor at Random House and readings of individual works by Octavia Butler, Henry Dumas, Amy Tan, and others, So develops a form of criticism that brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to the study of literature. A vital and provocative work for American literary studies, critical race studies, and the digital humanities, Redlining Culture shows the importance of data and computational methods for understanding and challenging racial inequality.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604730173
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Moves at the Margin written by Toni Morrison and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting three decades of Morrison's writings about her work, life, literature, and American society, this collection provides a unique glimpse into her viewpoint as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture.

Author : Louis Stone
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonah written by Louis Stone and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian novel set in Sydney in the early 1900s. It recaptures the Sydney of that time, the bustle, the characters, the harbor, and the climate. Jonah is a tough young lad, who despite a physical deformity, rises to success in business. It also tells of a romance between Chook, a rowdy and undisciplined gang member, and Pinkey.

Author : Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140592
Total Pages : 1999 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of African-American Literature written by Wilfred D. Samuels and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.

Author : Michael G. Cooke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300036244
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century written by Michael G. Cooke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines works by African American writers

Author : Trudier Harris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820327158
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South of Tradition written by Trudier Harris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays. Collectively, the essays show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of the twentieth century. But Harris-Lopez's readings of the various texts deliberately diverge from traditional ways of viewing traditional topics. South of Tradition focuses not only on well-known writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Richard Wright, but also on up-and-coming writers such as Randall Kenan and less-known writers such as Brent Wade and Henry Dumas. Harris-Lopez addresses themes of sexual and racial identity, reconceptualizations of and transcendence of Christianity, analyses of African American folk and cultural traditions, and issues of racial justice. Many of her subjects argue that geography shapes identity, whether that geography is the European territory many blacks escaped to from the oppressive South, or the South itself, where generations of African Americans have had to come to grips with their relationship to the land and its history. For Harris-Lopez, "south of tradition" refers both to geography and to readings of texts that are not in keeping with expected responses to the works. She explains her point of departure for the essays as "a slant, an angle, or a jolt below the line of what would be considered the norm for usual responses to African American literature." The scope of Harris-Lopez's work is tremendous. From her coverage of noncanonical writers to her analysis of humor in the best-selling The Color Purple, she provides essential material that should inform all future readings of African American literature.

Author : Michael C. Jaye
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008481
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature & the American Urban Experience written by Michael C. Jaye and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Luster
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752527
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Roads Project, a Walk in Book of Ar (p) written by Deborah Luster and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With photographer Deborah Luster, poet C.D. Wright documents the most significant places and authors in Arkansas's literary history. Replete with photographs, biographies, excerpts form novels and stories, poetry collections, and memoirs. -- University of Arkansas Press.

Author : Jeffrey B. Leak
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328707
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visible Man written by Jeffrey B. Leak and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited biography of an unsung literary legend who informed the major 1960s cultural and political movements: Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas's life and his creative development.