The Music in African American Fiction

The Music in African American Fiction
Author: Robert H. Cataliotti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815323303

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Routledge Library Editions

Routledge Library Editions
Author: Routledge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138389809

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1995 and 1999, is a collection of works by leading academics on African American Literature. The set provides a rigorous examination of the effect of music in the culture of African American society, and how it has impacted the literature of African American writers, it also looks at the presentation of black women in the writings of both black and white writers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. Finally the book looks at the experience of black writers living abroad. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of literature, history and specifically black American history.

The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature

The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature
Author: Jacqueline K. Bryant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429752911

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues that older black woman portrayed in early black women’s works differs significantly from the older black women portrayed in early white women’s works. The foremother figure, then emerging in early black women’s fiction revises the stereotypical mother figure in early white women’s fiction. In the context of the mulatta heroine the foremother produces minimal language that, through an Afrocentric rhetoric, distinguishes her from the stereotypical mother and thus links her peripheral role and unusual behaviour to cultural continuity and radical uplift.

Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature

Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429752776

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1995 and 1999, is a collection of works by leading academics on African American Literature. The set provides a rigorous examination of the effect of music in the culture of African American society, and how it has impacted the literature of African American writers, it also looks at the presentation of black women in the writings of both black and white writers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. Finally the book looks at the experience of black writers living abroad. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of literature, history and specifically black American history.

Black Literature and Literary Theory

Black Literature and Literary Theory
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-08-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134838344

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical strategies even more than it echoes black vernacular literary forms. This book, first published in 1984, is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of black literary theory on the one hand, and the features of black literary practice on the other. Rather than merely applying contemporary Western theory to black literature, these critics instead challenge and redefine the theory in order to make fresh, stimulating comments not only on black criticism and literature but also on the general state of criticism today.

Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations

Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations
Author: Nina Mjagkij
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1713
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135581223

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans for Humanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * Black Women's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science * National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists * National Dental Association * National Medical Association * Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association * Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church * and many more.

White Supremacy in Children's Literature

White Supremacy in Children's Literature
Author: Donnarae MacCann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135956847

This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an intersecting adult and child culture: it demonstrates that many children's stories had political, literary, and social contexts that paralleled the way adult books, schools, churches, and government institutions similarly maligned black identity, culture, and intelligence. The book reveals how links between the socialization of children and conservative trends in the 19th century foretold 20th century disregard for social justice in American social policy. The author demonstrates that cultural pluralism, an ongoing corrective to white supremacist fabrications, is informed by the insights and historical assessments offered in this study.

African American Architects

African American Architects
Author: Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 855
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135956294

Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.

Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple

Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple
Author: Katherine M. Helm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0415892627

Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple lays out specific strategies that clinicians can use in their work with black couples, regardless of the clinician's own race or level of experience.