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Articles 1 - 11 of 11
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
The Lunatic's Fancy And The Work Of Art, Shelly J. Eversley
The Lunatic's Fancy And The Work Of Art, Shelly J. Eversley
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, And Postmodern Popular Audiences, John K. Young
Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, And Postmodern Popular Audiences, John K. Young
English Faculty Research
In this essay the author examines the "Oprah Effect" on the career of Toni Morrison, who after three appearances on "Oprah's Book Club" has become the most dramatic example of postmodernism's merger between Morrison's canonical status and Winfrey's commercial power has superseded the publishing industry's field of normative whiteness, enabling Morrison to reach a broad, popular audience while being marketed as artistically important.
Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
A Yęmisi Jimoh
Article on The Wedding by Dorothy West.
Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine
Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine
Classical Studies Faculty Publications
As the recently published epistolary collection reveals, Ralph Ellison was an unabashed Americanist, for better and for worse. Ellison's faith in American identity and the democratic process, which is evident at the end of Invisible Man in the protagonist's determination to "affirm the principle on which the country was built [and not the men who did the violence]" (574), is again manifest in the posthumous novel, Juneteenth. According to John F. Callahan, Ellison's litearary executor, the novel celebrates "the indivisibility of the American experience" (Juneteeth xvi). James Alan McPherson (the African-American writer to whom Ellison showed a portion …
In Search Of The Self: An Analysis Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Ann Jacobs, Rhonda Kay Roddy
In Search Of The Self: An Analysis Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Ann Jacobs, Rhonda Kay Roddy
Theses Digitization Project
In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publication of Jacobs' …
Two Steps From The Blues: Creating Discourse And Constructing Canons In Blues Criticism, John M. Dougan
Two Steps From The Blues: Creating Discourse And Constructing Canons In Blues Criticism, John M. Dougan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation examines the development of blues criticism in its myriad forms from the 1920s to 1990s, its role in the emergence of a blues discourse and history, and the codification of a blues canon. I analyze blues discourse principally as the creation of critics, historians, and musicologists, but also as the result of series of complex, imbricated relationships among writers, musicians, fans, record collectors, and independent entrepreneurs.;Beginning in the 1920s, I outline a pre-history of blues discourse by examining the metamorphosis of the blues as a cultural text shaped by the folklore scholarship, criticism and reportage in the popular …