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Contemporary African American Literature

2013
The new face of black writing in ...
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African and African American Literature

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1990
Reply to Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. and introd. “African and African American Literature.” PMLA. 1990 Jan; 105(1): 7-184.
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Classic African American Children's Literature

The Reading Teacher, 2010
The purpose of this article is to assert that there are classic African American children's books and to identify a sampling of them. The author presents multiple definitions of the term classic based on the responses of children's literature experts and relevant scholarship.
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Early African American women’s literature

2009
Difficult miracles It is very likely that during the long and terrible voyages from Africa to the North American colonies, African women soothed fears and silenced moans of despair with songs and stories. It is not hard to imagine mothers creating lullabies and lovers composing poems. Surely, they recited their personal histories and created prayers
Frances Smith Foster, Larose Davis
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Icons of African American Literature

2011
The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World examines 24 of the most popular and culturally significant topics within African American literature's ...
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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Autobiography and African American women’s literature

2009
Black women's autobiographical writing in the Americas has been shaped by a unique literary inheritance, by challenges faced, and by day-to-day experience. The inheritance is a rich one rooted not only in written literary models, but also in the African American oral tradition of spiritual narrative and bearing witness, in traditions of protest, in ...
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Politics and African American Literature

As a result of American civic institutions excluding and marginalizing African Americans, African Americans found alternative ways to shape their political landscapes within the United States. Because elected officials wield a significant amount of power over people’s access to education, healthcare, housing, safety networks, and employment, the ...
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The African Americanization of Victorian Literature

2019
This introductory chapter demonstrates how nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American literature and print culture used Victorian literature to conduct acts of “African Americanization.” Here, close engagement with Victorian literature represented no mere capitulation to existing constraints, but instead constituted a deliberate political
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African American Humanities Literatures

The Acquisitions Librarian, 1997
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