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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Language and literature in the African American imagination. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992 (OCoLC)645860824 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol Blackshire-Belay |
| ISBN: | 0313278261 9780313278266 |
| OCLC Number: | 25629698 |
| Description: | x, 210 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 154. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay. |
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- 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.
- Africa -- In literature.
- English literature -- By -- Black persons
- United States
- Schrijvers.
- Negers.
- Zelfbeeld.
- Amerikaans.
- Literatur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Poetik
- Geschichte 1900-1970.
- USA
- Schwarze
- Black English
