Names and naming of an African American author: Implications for race, power, and privilege.

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-76
Author(s):  
Mary B. McRae
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Author

“Times Change”: Frank J. Webb Addresses Robert Morris on the Promise of Reconstruction

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Amber D. Moulton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Robert Morris ◽  
American Author

In 1869, African American author Frank J. Webb returned to Washington, D.C., to become a “Carpetbagger” in the Reconstruction South. In a letter to black Bostonian Robert Morris, Webb illustrated the richness of antebellum African American reform networks and portrayed one man’s boundless optimism for race relations in postbellum America.

scholarly journals (Im)Perfect memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łapińska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
American Author ◽  
Mourning Process

The article entitled “(Im)Perfect Memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn” explores the fallibility of memory as presented in Another Brooklyn, a novel by an African American author Jacqueline Woodson. The text presents the idea that personal memories change due to the passage of time along with the new experiences of an individual, and relates it to the studied novel. Special attention is given to different dimensions of grief and loss presented in the analyzed story. The mourning after the loss of loved ones is explored through the use of concepts such as Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief, the selective amnesia and the idea of continuing bonds. The process of growing up is also briefly considered as a mourning process over losing the innocence and safety provided by childhood. Further, the article presents the hardships of growing up without a mother in an unsafe neighbourhood, the loss of vital friendships and the search of a better life - all introduced through the recollections which occurred after a significant passage of time and the accumulation of experiences which lend themselves to the change of the mindset of the main character.

scholarly journals Theorizing Black Power Movement in African American Literature: An Analysis of Morrison's Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Fayaz Ahmad Kumar ◽  
Colette Morrow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black Power ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Black Aesthetics ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Author

This paper analyzes the influence of the Black Power movement on the AfricanAmerican literary productions; especially in the fictional works of Toni Morrison. As an African-American author, Toni Morrison presents the idea of 'Africanness' in her novels. Morrison's fiction comments on the fluid bond amongst the African-American community, the Black Power and Black Aesthetics. The works of Morrison focus on various critical points in the history of African-Americans, her fiction recalls not only the memory of Africa but also contemplates the contemporary issues. Morrison situates the power politics within the framework of literature by presenting the history of the African-American cultures.

“A Book One Can with Complete Confidence Call Important”: Albert Erskine, Ralph Ellison, and the Publishing of Invisible Man

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
DANIEL ROBERT KING
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
American Author ◽  
The University

In this article I examine the editing and publishing of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by Albert Erskine. Over the course of the piece, I deploy letters, drafts, and other material drawn from both Ellison's archive in the Library of Congress and Erskine's own archive at the University of Virginia to unpack how Erskine, as a white editor at a powerful international publishing house, conceived of his role in shepherding to market and marketing what he saw as a major literary work by an African American author.

scholarly journals Identity, difference and healing: Reading Beloved within the context of John Caputo’s theory of hermeneutics

Literator ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
B. Du Plooy ◽  
P. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Symbolic Representations ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Author

John Caputo’s interest in the human struggle towards healing/wholing is obvious in his contribution on the work of Foucault: “On not knowing who we are: Madness, hermeneutics, and the night of truth in Foucault” (Caputo, 1993:233-262). While basing his reading of madness as a form of human suffering on the work of Foucault, Caputo moves beyond Foucaultian theory – “in a direction that, while it was not taken by Foucault, is perhaps suggested by him” (Caputo, 1993:234) – by envisioning a hermeneutics of response and redress and a therapeutics of “healing gestures” (Caputo, 1993:234). In this article we investigate the applicability of Caputo’s theory of progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”, a work of historical fiction. (Morrison is an African-American author and Nobel laureate.) We do this investigation by reading the novel’s three major characters (Sethe, Beloved and Denver) as symbolic representations of Caputo’s three kinds of hermeneutics, of which the third, represented by the character Denver, is constitutive of a therapeutics of healing.

scholarly journals Maya Angelou’s Battle with Alienation in I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qudsia Zaini ◽  
Mohsin Hasan Khan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
American Author ◽  
Great Force

e themes of the existential crisis have been central in taking up their work in different domains of human experience and exhibit the force of departure from the so-called standardized norms and values of a society. These themes have been taken up by many authors of African American origin. This paper attempts to represent and explain the theme of alienation through an in-depth analysis of Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The crisis of identity, gender, consciousness, and everything seemingly comes to question in the powerful narratives of these kinds of writings. One such African American author is Maya Angelou. She is one of those who take these themes with great force and tries to free herself from the shackles of the so-called canonized versions of human values and seeks to explore a world in which she recreates an establishment of her new perspectives and freedom of humanity. The paper concludes by showing the struggles for recognition and self-awareness and developing onto a stronger woman pushed by her feeling of alienation.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Similarities between Morrison and Tie Ning

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Parallel Method ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
American Author ◽  
Contemporary Author

The thesis, employing parallel method in comparative literary study and an approach of feminism, conducts a comparison in the light of a lack of feminist consciousness and a hostile outlet of feminist consciousness in The Bluest Eye and Sula by Toni Morrison, an African American author, and Gate of Roses by Tie Ning, a Chinese contemporary author, which illustrates that an extreme feminist consciousness does damage to a healthy feminist consciousness.

scholarly journals Maya Angelou’s Battle with Alienation in I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
Qudsia Zaini ◽  
Mohsin Hasan Khan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
American Author ◽  
Great Force

The themes of the existential crisis have been central in taking up their work in different domains of human experience and exhibit the force of departure from the so-called standardized norms and values of a society. These themes have been taken up by many authors of African American origin. This paper attempts to represent and explain the theme of alienation through an in-depth analysis of Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The crisis of identity, gender, consciousness, and everything seemingly comes to question in the powerful narratives of these kinds of writings. One such African American author is Maya Angelou. She is one of those who take these themes with great force and tries to free herself from the shackles of the so-called canonized versions of human values and seeks to explore a world in which she recreates an establishment of her new perspectives and freedom of humanity. The paper concludes by showing the struggles for recognition and self-awareness and developing onto a stronger woman pushed by her feeling of alienation.

Great and Noble Lines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Barrett
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The South ◽  
American Author ◽  
Comparable Model

This chapter compares David Drake to George Moses Horton. Like Dave the Potter, Horton is a once-forgotten African American author who was living and writing in the South during the slave era. Barrett historicizes Horton’s formalism as a poet to reveal the racial and social underpinnings of his aesthetic. The fact that Horton’s poems were regularly commissioned by the slave-owning gentry of his region gives us a comparable model with which to comprehend the unexpected leniency shown Dave the Potter. Beyond the similarities, Barrett traces compelling differences between Horton and Drake, advancing, while also considering the limits of, a comparative approach to Dave the Potter.

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