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Phillis Wheatley in American Literary History and African American Literary Criticism [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2018 The paper makes a survey of the life and works by Phillis Wheatley (1753?- 1784), the first African American female poet, analyses critical reception of her poetry during her lifetime and up to nowadays, shows the way her literary reputation has been ...
Olga Yu. Panova
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Interlitteraria, 2017 Although black American womanist literary perspectives and ethical literary criticism theory emerged from different socio-cultural contexts, a number of intersections between the two can be discerned. One of the objectives of this paper is to analyze the
Agnieszka Łobodziec
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The inextricability of American identity dilemma in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A thematic study [PDF]
مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2023 Though Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, Invisible Man (1952), has not been acclaimed by Black nationalists, both the book and the writer continue to create momentum, either by means of praise or criticism, within the literary arena at large.
Dr.Abeer Abd -Allah Muhammed Al -Rifai
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Assemblage Point: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the American Racial / Cultural Identity Model [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2022 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852) being the most powerful statement on the racial issue in the 19th century American literature, succeeded to incorporate and rethink everything that the national tradition had
Olga Yu. Panova
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Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2021 The study of the African American community always circulates among the issues of race, racism, discrimination, slavery, and oppression. All these issues become the grand themes of African American literature.
Gisa Maya Saputri
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Literator, 1991 Feminists feel that in literary criticism not enough consideration is given to feminism as an ideology in the production of texts. According to them, existing literary criticism is strongly man-centred.
J. W. du Plessis, D. H. Steenberg
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“Looking ‘Foreword’ to Milton in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”
Religions, 2020 Prior to the 2014 republication of Toni Morrison’s, Paradise, the novelist had not published any commentary about the role of literary influence John Milton might have had on her fictional writings.
Reginald A. Wilburn
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Southern Spaces, 2007 This essay examines Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto" (1837), a short story acknowledged as the first fictional work by an African American. Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour's story, a narrative of slavery in Saint ...
Ed Piacentino
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Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Southern Spaces, 2007 Speaking at Emory University on April 13, 2007, Dr. Womack explores the complex historical relationship between African Americans and the Creek Confederacy through a close reading of two short stories by Creek author Alexander Posey: "Uncle Dick and ...
Craig Womack
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Back to Black: African American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment
American Literary History, 2022 Abstract For more than a century, scholars of Black literature have sought to align a critical project focused on identifying and celebrating Black distinctiveness with a social project aimed at redressing racial inequality. This commitment to Black distinctiveness announces itself as a project on behalf of “the race” as a whole, but has
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