Research Catalog

Title

Transcendence and the Africana literary enterprise / Christel N. Temple.

Author

Temple, Christel N.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Details

Description

xxvi, 217 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical Africana studies : African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies

Uniform Title

Critical Africana studies.

Subject

• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature
• Pan-Africanism in literature
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• African Americans and mass media

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Literary Africology -- 2. Twentieth Century Black Lives Mattered: Reading Male Mortality in The Souls of Black Folk and The Living Is Easy -- 3. "Can't the Race Stand a Joke?": Humor and Pan-African Folk Negotiation in Banjo -- 4. Africana Literary Methods and the Bibliographic Shift in Iola Leroy and The Street -- 5. Autobiography and Documentary Forms of Here I Stand as Black Cultural Mythology -- 6. A Raisin In The Sun and the Tradition of Literary Pan-Africanism -- 7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the Demographic Literary Standard -- 8. Parable of the Sower's Earthseed as Black Liberation Theology -- 9. Self-Eulogy as Prophetic Afrofuturism in Narratives of John Henrik Clarke and Malcolm X -- 10. Maat and the Psychology of Justice in the Morrisonesque Community of Perfect Peace -- 11. Beyonce? No. Lauryn Hill? Yes: Interludes of Womanist Hip-Hop and the Traditional Activist Genre -- 12. Broadway as Text: Africana History on Stage in Hamilton and Aida -- 13. Image and Verse, Music and Media: Diasporic Performance of Cultural Memory.

Call Number

Sc E 18-723

ISBN

• 9781498545082
• 1498545084

LCCN

2017038565

OCLC

1002119797

Author

Temple, Christel N., author.

Title

Transcendence and the Africana literary enterprise / Christel N. Temple.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical Africana studies : African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies

Critical Africana studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-723