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Literary Retrospection In The Harlem Renaissance, Claudia Stokes
Literary Retrospection In The Harlem Renaissance, Claudia Stokes
Claudia Stokes
In 1925, book collector and Harlem Renaissance patron Arthur A. Schomburg began the essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past," published in Alain Locke's landmark anthology The New Negro (1925), by proclaiming that the "American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. ... So among the rising democratic millions we find the Negro thinking more collectively, more retrospectively than the rest, and opt out of the very pressure of the present to become the most enthusiastic antiquarian of them all" (231). These words might be surprising to the beginning student of the Harlem Renaissance, seduced by …
The Religious Revival: Narratives Of Religious Origin In Us Culture, Claudia Stokes
The Religious Revival: Narratives Of Religious Origin In Us Culture, Claudia Stokes
Claudia Stokes
The administration of George W. Bush ushered in a new era of public religious discourse. Before the 2000 election, a politician’s religion generally remained in the shadowy recesses of private life, politely referenced only as metonymic evidence attesting to his or her strong moral foundation and character. The presidential campaigns of George W. Bush moved religious rhetoric from the political margins to the center, by speaking openly about the effects of his midlife conversion to Christianity and by using coded religious language to mobilize conservative Christian voters. This explicit inclusion of religious rhetoric has dramatically changed the texture of American …
Cavemen In Eden? Bernard Shaw And Mark Twain Offer Radical Revisions Of Genesis, Julie A. Sparks
Cavemen In Eden? Bernard Shaw And Mark Twain Offer Radical Revisions Of Genesis, Julie A. Sparks
Julie A. Sparks
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