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An Afternoon With Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou

James R. Thompson Leadership Lectures

Maya Angelou, a nationally renowned poet, educator, historian and author, is one of the great voices of contemporary literature. In addition, she is an accomplished actress, playwright, producer, and director. Dr. Angelou received an emmy nomination for best supporting actress in the television series Roots and received the coveted Golden Eagle Award for the PBS documentary "Afro-American in the Arts." However, she is perhaps best known for the public for her autobiographies and books of poetry.

Maya Angelou has authored more than 10 best selling books and numerous articles in publications such as Life, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and The New …

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

San José Studies, Fall 1993, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 19, Issue 3

Community Pride Reporter, 10/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Vol. 13, No. 4 (1993), Lawrence Wells, William Boozer, Nancy Hall, Connie Erickson

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

American Christianity And Its Role In The Denigration Of The African-American Identity As Found In African-American Literature, Zelda Lockhart

English Theses & Dissertations

The positive effects of American Christianity on the African-American from slavery to present day are often analyzed in African-American literature, which depicts black characters who are grateful to God, mostly for giving them the strength to endure the many social and psychological abuses inflicted by American institutions. African-American literature, however, also depicts characters whose relationship with Christianity subordinates them in American society.

The following chapters will explore the downfalls and ironies of an African-American/Christian dichotomy, and show how the historical events of America have influenced African-American Christianity.

Chapter One gives a historical account of America's involvement in the Transatlantic slave …

Community Pride Reporter, 09/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 08/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Marsha Norman's Ghosts: The Embodiment Of The Past On The Stage, Jennifer Anne Workman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the role of the ghost figure in Marsha Norman's drama. In order to understand how this ghost figure is unique to her drama, but at the same time has roots in the American theater, I first examine her relationship to her American predecessors and their portrayal of the past in order to later show how the ghost figure is Norman's "device" that she uses to explore the past on the stage. I then attempt to determine her relationship to the current movements with which she is most often associated: new realism and feminism. Because new realism …

Community Pride Reporter, 07/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Vol. 13, No. 3 (1993), Jane Hill, Peter Stoicheff, Bruce A. Jacobs, Theresa Towner, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1993, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1993. Includes: A juvenile classic follows the Grapes of Wrath / Anne Loftis; Pu-raise Gawd fur Vittory, Granma as Prophet / John Ditsky

Whirling Darkness: Witchery's Ascent In The Writings Of Leslie Marmon Silko, Kristin Monahan

Theses & Dissertations

Apocalyptic imagery spirals throughout Leslie Marmon Silko's works. The destruction of individuals, cultures, and eventually the Earth are purported by the grand plan of witchery. Evil has existed among Native American's in the form of witchery since time began. Its forces reside within all things. Yet with the tools provided by the spirits, namely the oral tradition and ceremonies, witchery can be controlled: the stories explain its origin and its power, showing how witchery has been overcome in the past, while the ceremonies provide a means of healing those who have been afflicted. By maintaining connections to the universe, past, …

Paintings And Drawings In Willa Cather's Prose: A Catalogue Raisonné, Polly P. Duryea

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Paintings and Drawings in Willa Cather's Prose: A Catalogue Raisonné considers the specific artists and their visual art that greatly influenced Willa Cather's textual compositions. The Catalogue draws upon the author's research of Cather-related art from both American and European libraries and art museums. This art includes painting, drawing, illustration, and tapestry. A detailed and alphabetized list of selected artists and paintings that Cather preferred is provided. The artists are cross-referenced with Cather's own statements about their work or style. Included is biographical data for each artist, the named work of art, and often the date executed, the location then …

Vol. 13, No. 2 (1993), Gene Roper Jr.

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard & Pulp Studies

Articles:

From Cross Plains to the Stars: Robert E. Howard’s Science Fiction, by Fred Blosser

Cosmic Filth: Howard’s View of Evil, by Charles Hoffman

Robert E. Howard Winner of Essay Medal While in High School (1936), by uncredited

“What the Nation Owes to the South” (variant of What the Nation Owes to the South 1923) [as by Robert Howard], by Robert E. Howard

The Active Voice: Robert E. Howard’s Personae, by Rusty Burke

Reviews (The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies, April 1993), by Bill Cavalier, Vernon M. Clark, & S.T. Joshi

Reviews of three issues of …

Gearing Up: Compositional Order In Vandover And The Brute, Ethan Lewis

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Friendship And Idolatry In Esther Edwards’ Burr’S Letters, William J. Scheick

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Remembering And Dis(Re)Membering: Memory, Community And The Individual In Beloved, Elizabeth Cooley

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Body Eclectic: Sources Of Ray Bradbury’S Martian Chronicles, Jonathan Eller

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Teaching Dickinson As A Gen(I)Us: Emily Among The Women, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In this article, Walker argues that those who teach the poetry of Emily Dickinson should not only compare her to other recognized and lauded American poets, such as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. This method offers no cultural context to provide ligature. It views high art as to be only about language and, on the score of tropological discourse, any two poets could be connected, even across vast expanses of time and distance. While it's useful for students to see how elements of her work connect her not only …

Plath’S Poem For A Birthday: Forging A New Self, Nancy D. Hargrove

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Faulkner’S As I Lay Dying: The Coffin Pictogram And The Function Of Form, Barry R. Mccann

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Mythic Images In Charles Brockden Brown’S Ormond, Marietta Patrick

Studies in English, New Series

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The Male Threat In Beloved, N. Teeter

Studies in English, New Series

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A Note On Shreve Mackenzie, Beverly Smith

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Texts And Other Fictions In Gore Vidal’S Burr, Thomas Gladsky

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Onomastics In The Scarlet Letter, Elizabeth Molnar Rajec

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Failed Quests For Ideal Love: Jude The Obscure As A Paradigm For The Wild Palms, Margaret D. Bauer

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.