In The African American Grain
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In The African American Grain
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Author : John F. Callahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
In The African American Grain written by John F. Callahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with African Americans in literature categories.
In The African American Grain
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Author : John F. Callahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-02
In The African American Grain written by John F. Callahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02 with categories.
"A splendidly researched & written book. The most sophisticated study of black narrative published to date. Offers a persuasive historiographical argument, asserting that the tradition is both male & female with numerous points of contact between the two. The tradition embraces both storywriting & storytelling. While Afro-American literary texts must be discussed as works of art, there is a way to examine their dual concern with art & politics." Consists of a series of richly illustrated & deftly argued interpretations of 20th century African-American prose texts.
In The African American Grain
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Author : John F. Callahan
language : en
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1988
In The African American Grain written by John F. Callahan and has been published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The African American Grain
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Author : John F. Callahan
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2001
In The African American Grain written by John F. Callahan and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In the African-American Grain is a powerful exploration of the impact of African-American oral storytelling techniques on modern and contemporary fiction. Reading literature in the call-and-response tradition, John F. Callahan shows how African-American writers including Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, and Alice Walker have used the forms and forces of this uniquely participatory discourse to establish not only a potential relationship between storyteller and audience but also a potential for change. In a new preface Callahan comments on how the tradition of call-and-response has continued to develop among African-American writers as well as writers of other backgrounds."
Lost Crops Of Africa
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1996-02-14
Lost Crops Of Africa written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-14 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Yet there is an overlooked food resource in sub-Saharan Africa that has vast potential: native food plants. When experts were asked to nominate African food plants for inclusion in a new book, a list of 30 species grew quickly to hundreds. All in all, Africa has more than 2,000 native grains and fruitsâ€""lost" species due for rediscovery and exploitation. This volume focuses on native cereals, including: African rice, reserved until recently as a luxury food for religious rituals. Finger millet, neglected internationally although it is a staple for millions. Fonio (acha), probably the oldest African cereal and sometimes called "hungry rice." Pearl millet, a widely used grain that still holds great untapped potential. Sorghum, with prospects for making the twenty-first century the "century of sorghum." Tef, in many ways ideal but only now enjoying budding commercial production. Other cultivated and wild grains. This readable and engaging book dispels myths, often based on Western bias, about the nutritional value, flavor, and yield of these African grains. Designed as a tool for economic development, the volume is organized with increasing levels of detail to meet the needs of both lay and professional readers. The authors present the available information on where and how each grain is grown, harvested, and processed, and they list its benefits and limitations as a food source. The authors describe "next steps" for increasing the use of each grain, outline research needs, and address issues in building commercial production. Sidebars cover such interesting points as the potential use of gene mapping and other "high-tech" agricultural techniques on these grains. This fact-filled volume will be of great interest to agricultural experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, and individuals concerned about restoring food production, environmental health, and economic opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa. Selection, Newbridge Garden Book Club
African American Life In The Rural South 1900 1950
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Author : R. Douglas Hurt
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2003
African American Life In The Rural South 1900 1950 written by R. Douglas Hurt and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable.
Homecoming
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Author : Charlene Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 2000
Homecoming written by Charlene Gilbert and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
"With journalist Quinn Eli, filmmaker Charlene Gilbert embarks on a search for her own family's story and uncovers the larger, untold history of African-American farmers. A companion book to the PBS documentary, Homecoming traces black ownership of land from the time of Reconstruction, when the failed promise of "forty acres and a mule" inspired so many black farmers to seek land of their own, to the recent Supreme Court decision to grant them restitution from the federal government for racist banking practices. As black farmers struggle to survive today, Homecoming pays tribute not only to the devastating losses they have suffered throughout the century but also to their enduring legacy of hope. A combination of personal memory and historical storytelling, Homecoming "celebrates the heroism and nobility of black farmers and provides clear evidence of the need for land reform in the United States" (Barbara Neely, author of Blanche Passes Go)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Rural Radicals
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Author : Catherine McNicol Stock
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1996
Rural Radicals written by Catherine McNicol Stock and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Political Science categories.
Stock examines recurring themes in rural radical movements, including anti-federalism, white supremacy, populism, and vigilantism. She beleives we need to understand both the historic roots and the diverse manifestations of rural radicalism in order to make some sense of the action that tore a hole in this country's heartland in the spring of 1995. 8 photos. 2 maps.
Bearing Witness To African American Literature
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Author : Bernard W. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Bearing Witness To African American Literature written by Bernard W. Bell 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 2012-05-15 with Literary Collections categories.
An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.
Conversions And Visions In The Writings Of African American Women
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Author : Kimberly Rae Connor
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1994
Conversions And Visions In The Writings Of African American Women written by Kimberly Rae Connor and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
The subsequent achievement of selfhood is then based on the interplay of individual and community identities. Connor suggests that the distinctiveness of African-American women's experiences and writings can transcend their immediate communities and be brought to bear on women's experiences in general, making their individual stories more accessible and meaningful to the whole of humankind.