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The essays in this groundbreaking collection constitute a pioneering attempt at establishing a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the context of the European Union. Drawing from a wide variety of critical perspectives and methodologies, from Post-colonial or Diaspora Studies to Sociology or Ethnography, contributors to the volume analyze black diasporic communities and their cultural productions in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, paying particular attention to women afrosporic writers.

Literature --- European literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Littérature --- Littérature européenne --- Identité (psychologie) --- Auteurs noirs --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature

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With its range of subject texts, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality builds a critical framework for exploring the presence and import of African spirituality in black Ameri-Atlantic artistic musings. These essays illustrate the intricate network of African spiritual transportations and transformations among New World and continental African literatures.

African literature (English) --- Caribbean literature (English) --- American literature --- African diaspora in literature. --- African diaspora --- Spirituality in literature. --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- English literature --- Caribbean literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Religious life and customs. --- Migrations --- African authors --- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- Africains --- Spiritualité --- Auteurs noirs --- Histoire et critique. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- Vie religieuse. --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- Spiritualité --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Dans la littérature.

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Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks in African American literary history. Many other writers, such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Richard Wright, are acclaimed essayists but achieved greater fame for their work in other genres; their essay work is often overlooked or studied only in the contexts of their better-known works. Here Cheryl A. Wall offers the first sustained study of the African American essay as a distinct literary genre. Beginning with the sermons, orations, and writing of nineteenth-century men and women like Frederick Douglass who laid the foundation for the African American essay, Wall examines the genre's evolution through the Harlem Renaissance. She then turns her attention to four writers she regards as among the most influential essayists of the twentieth century: Baldwin, Ellison, June Jordan, and Alice Walker. She closes the book with a discussion of the status of the essay in the twenty-first century as it shifts its medium from print to digital in the hands of writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brittney Cooper. Wall's beautifully written and insightful book is nothing less than a redefinition of how we understand the genres of African American literature.

African American authors --- Essayists, American. --- Essay. --- Literary sketch --- Sketch, Literary --- Afro-American authors --- Authors, African American --- Negro authors --- Authors, American --- History and criticism. --- African American authors. --- Essayists --- Essayists. --- Schwarze. --- America. --- USA. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Essais --- Histoire et critique. --- Authors

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"This project links the engagement of Black nationalist activism to artistic experimentation in recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez argues that the ideology of modern Black nationalism functions as a dominant means for artistic and theoretical experimentation in African-American literary and visual artwork in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The project provides a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production while also shedding new light on the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and placing emphasis on how questions of gender and sexuality guide the artistic experimentation discussed throughout the work. More specifically, Avilez unravels how the artistic production of the Black Arts era provides a set of critical methodologies and paradigms rooted in the disidentification with Black nationalist discourses, which gives rise to a subjectivity Avilez refers to as aesthetic radicalism. This term describes the engaged critique of nationalist rhetoric that appears prominently during the 1960s and that continues to offer novel means for expressing Black intimacy and embodiment and producing experimental works of art and innovate artistic methods.--Provided by publisher.

African Americans --- Black nationalism --- American literature --- Black Arts movement --- African American arts --- Noirs américains --- Nationalisme noir --- Littérature américaine --- Arts noirs américains --- Intellectual life --- History --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Critique et interprétation. --- Black Arts movement. --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- 20th century. --- History and criticism. --- Noirs américains --- Littérature américaine --- Arts noirs américains --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Critique et interprétation.

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This volume has as a cohesive argument the exploration of the different manifestations of the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women writers, covering different literary genres such as fiction (both no

American literature --- African diaspora in literature. --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature. --- Spirituality in literature. --- Self in literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Littérature américaine --- Spiritualité --- Moi --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- 20e siècle --- 21e siècle --- Dans la littérature --- Littérature américaine --- Spiritualité --- Auteurs noirs américains --- 20e siècle --- 21e siècle --- Dans la littérature