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Language and literature in the African American imagination
- Title
- Language and literature in the African American imagination / edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS153.N5 L36 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Blackshire-Belay, Carol
- Description
- x, 210 pages; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 154
- Uniform Title
- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 154.
- Subject
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- English language > United States > Foreign elements > African
- American literature > African influences
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans > Languages
- African American aesthetics
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- American literature > African American authors
- English language > Foreign elements > African
- Literature
- Literatur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Poetik
- Black English
- Schwarze
- Schrijvers
- Zelfbeeld
- Amerikaans
- Geschichte 1900-1970
- Africa > In literature
- Africa
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Schwarze
- Black English
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Afrocentricity and literary theory : the maturing imagination / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- Locating a text : implications of Afrocentric theory / Molefi Kete Asante -- Refusing to be boxed in : Sonia Sanchez's transformation of the Haiku form / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey -- Reassessing African American literature through an Afrocentric paradigm : Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin / Carolyn L. Holmes -- Cultural and linguistic transitions : the comparative case of African Americans and ethnic minorities in Germany / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- African languages in the African American experience / Alamin Mazrui -- Kitchen table talk : J. California Cooper's use of Nommo-female bonding and transcendence / Barbara J. Marshall.
- Dilemma of the dutiful servant : the poetry of Jupiter Hammon / Lonnell E. Johnson -- The blue/black poetics of Sonia Sanchez / Regina B. Jennings -- Afrocentric aesthetics in selected Harlem Renaissance poetry / Abu Shardow Abarry -- Folk idiom in the literary expression of two African American authors : Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa / Kirkland C. Jones -- From nice colored girl to womanist : an exploration of development in Ntozake Shange's writings / Geta LeSeur -- De Jure Maurorum in Europa (on the rights of Blacks in Europe) : a Black civil rights activist in Europe in the eighteenth century / Reginald Bess -- The African American imagination in language and literature : an afterword / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay.
- ISBN
- 0313278261
- 9780313278266
- LCCN
- 92012509
- OCLC
- ocm25629698
- 25629698
- SCSB-1968889
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library