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Afro-blue : improvisations in African American poetry and culture
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press,

Small acts : thoughts on the politics of black cultures
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ISBN: 185242298X Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Serpent's tail,


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Black american fiction since 1952 : a preliminary checklist
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Year: 1970 Publisher: Chatham, NJ : The Chatham bookseller,

The black nation novel : imagining homeplaces in the early african-american literature
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ISBN: 9780883782811 0883782812 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago : Third World Press,

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Examining early African American literature from the perspective of a Black Nationalist literary critic, this analysis explores important novels from the 19th and 20th centuries. The discussion demonstrates that Black Nationalist themes were present in many early novels, prefiguring the themes that would become the centerpiece of the Black Power Movement. One of the few books that examines early African American novels, this definitive exploration of them adds to the discussion of black literature and literary criticism.

Langston Hughes and the blues
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ISBN: 0252069854 Year: 2001 Publisher: Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press,

Extraordinary measures : afrocentric modernism and twentieth-century American poetry
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ISBN: 0817310142 Year: 2000 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press,


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Ralph Ellison : a collection of critical essays.
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ISBN: 013274340X 0132743574 Year: 1974 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) Prentice Hall


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Haunting and displacement in African American literature and culture
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ISBN: 9780415990943 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Looking at texts including Jean Toomer's "Cane", Toni Morrison's "Beloved", James Baldwin's "Another Country", and 'Beat' poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory - conscious and unconscious, individual and collective - often drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences.

Ten is the age of darkness : the black Bildungsroman
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ISBN: 0826210112 Year: 1995 Publisher: Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press,

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In Ten Is the Age of Darkness, Geta LeSeur explores how black authors of the United States and the English-speaking Caribbean have taken a European literary tradition and adapted it to fit their own needs for self-expression. LeSeur begins by defining the European genre of the bildungsroman, then shows how the circumstances of colonialism, oppression, race, class, and gender make the maturing experiences of selected young black protagonists different from those of their white counterparts. Examining the parallels and differences in attitudes toward childhood in the West Indies and the United States, as well as the writers' individual perspectives in each work, LeSeur reaches intriguing conclusions about family life, community participation in the nurturing of children, the timing and severity of the youngsters' confrontation of adult society, and the role played by race in the journey toward adulthood. LeSeur's readings of African American novels provide new insights into the work of Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, and Richard Wright, among others. When read as examples of the bildungsroman rather than simply as chronicles of black experiences, these works reveal an even deeper significance and have a more powerful impact.

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