Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic
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Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic
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Author : Madhu Dubey
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1994
Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic written by Madhu Dubey and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Focus on the works of Toni Morrison, Gaye Jones, and Alice Walker.
Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic
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Author : Madhu Dubey
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1994-05-22
Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic written by Madhu Dubey and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-22 with Fiction categories.
Focus on the works of Toni Morrison, Gaye Jones, and Alice Walker.
Women S Work
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Author : Courtney Thorsson
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Women S Work written by Courtney Thorsson and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism—practiced by their characters as "women's work"—that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance of nation in post–Black Arts writing. Identifying five forms of women's work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.
The African American Male Writing And Difference
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Author : W. Lawrence Hogue
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The African American Male Writing And Difference written by W. Lawrence Hogue and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
Black Women Novelists
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Author : Barbara Christian
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1980-10-24
Black Women Novelists written by Barbara Christian and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Surveying the evolution of images of black women in black fiction from 1892 to 1976, Christian analyzes novelists from Frances Harper through Zora Neale Hirston to Anne Perty. She traces the struggle of black female novelists to contend against the images that have defined them in American life and literature. Part II discusses three contemporary novelists -- Paule Marshall, Tom Morrison and Alice Walker.
Signs And Cities
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Author : Madhu Dubey
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Signs And Cities written by Madhu Dubey and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.
Culture Bearing Women
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Author : Izabella Penier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Culture Bearing Women written by Izabella Penier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with African American women authors categories.
This study examines the Black Women's Renaissance (BWR) - the flowering of literary talent among African American women at the end of the 20th century. It focuses on the historical and heritage novels of the 1980s and the vexed relationship between black cultural nationalism and black feminism. It argues that when the nation seemingly fell out of fashion, black women writers sought to re-create what Renan called "a soul, a spiritual principle" for their ethnic group. BWR narratives, especially those associated with womanism, appreciated "culture bearing" mothers as cultural reproducers of the nation and transmitters of its values. In this way, the writers of the BWR gave rise to "matrifocal" cultural nationalism that superseded masculine cultural nationalism of the previous decade and made black women, instead of black men, principal agents/carriers of national identity. This monograph argues that even though matrifocal nationalism empowered women, ultimately it was a flawed project. It promoted gender and cultural essentialism, i.e. it glorified black motherhood and mother-daughter bonding and condemned other, more radical models of black female subjectivity. Moreover, the BWR, vivified by middle-class and educated black women, turned readers' attention from more contentious social issues, such as class mobility or wealth redistribution. The monograph compares the cultural nationalist novels of the 1980s with social protest novels written by the same authors in the 1970s and explains the rationale behind the change in their aesthetic and political agenda. It also contrasts novels written by womanist writers (Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor to name just a few) and by African Caribbean immigrant or second-generation writers (Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid and Michelle Cliff) to show that, on the score of cultural nationalism, the BWR was not a monolithic phenomenon. African American and African Caribbean women writers collectively contributed to the flourishing of the BWR, but they did not share the same ideas on black identities, histories, or the question of ethnonational belonging.
The Columbia Guide To Contemporary African American Fiction
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Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-06
The Columbia Guide To Contemporary African American Fiction written by Darryl Dickson-Carr and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and defeat in Vietnam led to an unraveling of the national consensus. During the decade, ideas about the United States, how it should be governed, and how its economy should be managed changed dramatically. Berkowitz argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced by a more skeptical attitude about government's ability to positively affect society. From Woody Allen to Watergate, from the decline of the steel industry to the rise of Bill Gates, and from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers, Berkowitz captures the history, tone, and spirit of the seventies. He explores the decade's major political events and movements, including the rise and fall of détente, congressional reform, changes in healthcare policies, and the hostage crisis in Iran. The seventies also gave birth to several social movements and the "rights revolution," in which women, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities all successfully fought for greater legal and social recognition. At the same time, reaction to these social movements as well as the issue of abortion introduced a new facet into American political life-the rise of powerful, politically conservative religious organizations and activists. Berkowitz also considers important shifts in American popular culture, recounting the creative renaissance in American film as well as the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster. He discusses how television programs such as All in the Family and Charlie's Angels offered Americans both a reflection of and an escape from the problems gripping the country.
Black People Are My Business
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Author : Thabiti Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Black People Are My Business written by Thabiti Lewis and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara’s Practices of Liberation studies the works of Bambara (1939–1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis’s analysis serves as a cultural biography, examining the liberation impulses in Bambara’s writing, which is concerned with practices that advance the material value of the African American experience and exploring the introspection between artist production and social justice. This is the first monograph that focuses on Bambara’s unique approach and important literary contribution to 1970s and 1980s African American literature. It explores her unique nationalist, feminist, Marxist, and spiritualist ethos, which cleared space for many innovations found in black women’s fiction. Divided into five chapters, Lewis’s study relies on Bambara’s voice (from interviews and essays) to craft a "spiritual wholeness aesthetic"—a set of principles that comes out of her practices of liberation and entail family, faith, feeling, and freedom—that reveals her ability to interweave ethnic identity, politics, and community engagement and responsibility with the impetus of balancing black male and female identity influences and interactions within and outside the community. One key feature of Bambara’s work is the concentration on women as cultural workers whereby her notion of spiritual wholeness upends what has become a scholarly distinction between feminism and black nationalism. Bambara’s fiction situates her as a pivotal voice within the Black Arts Movement and contemporary African American literature. Bambara is an understudied and important artistic voice whose aversion to playing it safe both personified and challenged the boundaries of black nationalism and feminism. "Black People Are My Business" is a wonderful addition to any reader’s list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.
Teaching African American Women S Writing
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Author : G. Wisker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-09-29
Teaching African American Women S Writing written by G. Wisker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education groups as well as teachers involved in teaching in schools to A level.