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Edward P. Jones - Short Story Locations - Vol. 1, Kenton Rambsy, John Bryant, Hira Chaudhary, Michael Dennis, Misty Falkenstein, Ahmed Foggie, Terrance Ford, Jade Harrison, Lauren Phelps, Michael Riojas, Mohammed Ali H. Sumili, Angela Zitting
Edward P. Jones - Short Story Locations - Vol. 1, Kenton Rambsy, John Bryant, Hira Chaudhary, Michael Dennis, Misty Falkenstein, Ahmed Foggie, Terrance Ford, Jade Harrison, Lauren Phelps, Michael Riojas, Mohammed Ali H. Sumili, Angela Zitting
English Datasets
This dataset documents Edward P. Jones’s consistent focus on Washington D.C. as a setting in his two short story collections. During the Fall semester of 2017, in the graduate course ENGL 5324, my students and I used digital tools and performed close reads to extract actual locations in Washington, D.C. mentioned across Jones’s two collections of short stories. We also verified information by adding zip codes and actual address to landmarks and locations referenced in the stories. These locations help us to chart the movement and locations of characters.
300 Key African American Literary Texts., Kenton Rambsy, Howard Rambsy
300 Key African American Literary Texts., Kenton Rambsy, Howard Rambsy
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This dataset is comprised of 300 African American novels, essays, poems, autobiographies, slave narratives, and short stories. Inspired by Metacaon.org, a project that weights texts based primarily on the number of citations that works have received in scholarly journals. The dataset draws on five databases: JSTOR, Project Muse, ProQuest, Google Scholar, and the online archives for The New York Times archives to determine the scholarly significance of Black authored texts primarily by the number of times they are cited in scholarly contexts.
Cultural Geo-Tagging The Big 7, Kenton Rambsy
Cultural Geo-Tagging The Big 7, Kenton Rambsy
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Over the course of several decades, anthology editors shaped the landscape of literature by repeatedly publishing stories by a core group of writers: Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker. This dataset offers a general overview of structural features as well as information about settings and characters referenced in select stories by these writers. Metadata about the following stories are included in this dataset: Charles Chesnutt: Po Sandy, The Goophered Grapevine, The Passing of Grandison, The Sheriff's Children, The Wife of His Youth Zora Neale Hurston: Drenched in Light, Sweat, …
The Black Short Story Dataset - Vol. 1, Kenton Rambsy, Jade Harrison, Rebecca Newsom
The Black Short Story Dataset - Vol. 1, Kenton Rambsy, Jade Harrison, Rebecca Newsom
English Datasets
Funded by a 2017 UTA, iLASR (Liberal Arts + Smart Revolution) Grant, this dataset contains information related to over 600 African American short stories that appeared in 100 African American and American anthologies published between 1925 and 2017. This dataset was produced by Dr. Kenton Rambsy with Jade Harrison and Rebecca Newsom serving as research assistants.