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Listening to Resistance: The Walkman, Portable Music Technology, and the Soundscape of Urban Unrest in Post-1992 Los Angeles Literature

Literature
Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997) and Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle (1996) evoke the act of listening to music as a way to dismantle stereotypical representations of urban resistance and to paint a diverse picture of how communities ...
Brandy E. Underwood
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AI, Ai, and I: Mapping Marxist and Afrofuturist Approaches to Plagiarism and ChatGPT Through Pauline Hopkins

Radical Teacher
This essay argues that teaching ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies in writing-intensive courses should not merely attempt to offer students guidance on responsible use of this transformative technology.
Len von Morzé
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The first translations of Harlem renaissance poetry in Slovenia

Acta Neophilologica, 2008
From the present-day perspective Harlem Renaissance poetry represents an epoch-making contribution by America's black authors to the mainstream literature.
Jerneja Petrič
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African-American Literature [PDF]

, 2012
This course considers the impact of storytelling and spirituals on the literary production of African American authors from the Colonial period to the current day, examining the cultural, historical, and political contexts of the literature, as well as ...
The Saylor Foundation
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New Kids on The Block: Children as Political Subjects in Gorilla, My Love

Iperstoria, 2020
This article examines the depiction of children and adolescents in Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love, exploring the ways in which their performance characterizes them as potential agents of change within and outside the narrative. I argue that Bambara
Cristina Di Maio
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing [PDF]

, 2013
African American literature is infused with travel. Experiences of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the ...
Winfield, G
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Outside In: Chorus and Clearing in the Time of Pandemic and Protest

Sociologica, 2020
A sonic ensemble, this essay describes how the COVID-19 pandemic cleared the way for heightened protest against racial violence. Both the pandemic and Black Lives Matter address the acoustical threshold between the inside and outside, being a call to ...
Julie Beth Napolin
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The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature [PDF]

, 2012
The authors Zora Neale Hurston Toni Morrison and Randall Kenan create a authentic listener experience through the use of literary features that mimic oral tradition in African American culture.
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“The Noise of Our Living”: Richard Wright and Chicago Blues

Humanities
Historicizing the musical genre known as “Chicago blues,” I further complicate Richard Wright’s already complicated attitudes toward “the folk” and modernity.
Jeff Wimble
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The Reflection of African American History and Culture in African American Literature

Innovative Research Thoughts
This paper explores the intricate relationship between African American history, culture, and literature, highlighting how African American literary works serve as a profound reflection of the community's historical and cultural journey. By examining significant historical periods such as slavery, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, and ...
null Shikha Sharma, null Dr. Neetu Tyagi
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