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Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres

Southern Spaces, 2004
Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another as symbiotic southern genres, even if only contrapuntally.
Lucinda MacKethan
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Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown

Southern Spaces, 2016
Historian Joseph Crespino interviews Decatur, Georgia-based historical novelist, Thomas Mullen, author of Darktown (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), The Revisionists (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011), The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (New
Joseph Crespino, Thomas Mullen
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Reading and Theorizing James Baldwin: A Bibliographic Essay

James Baldwin Review, 2015
Readers and critics alike, for the past sixty years, generally agree that Baldwin is a major African-American writer. What they do not agree on is why.
Conseula Francis
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Love as Seen through African-American Parents and Children Relationship in Sula by Toni Morrison: a Psychoanalytical Reading

International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education, 2022
: Socio-economic, cultural and political upheavals which shake Americans of all ages at given times always leave indelible marks as consequences on social constructs.
Senankpon Raoul AHOUANGANSI
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Local Color

Southern Spaces, 2004
Southern local color in the post-Reconstruction era provided the region with one of its most effective pathways back into national prominence through its appeal to northern curiosity and nostalgia.
Lucinda MacKethan
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The First Encounter: “Negro American Literature” in the Soviet Literary Criticism of the 1920s [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2019
Soviet leaders and Comintern stressed the importance of the “Negro problem” in the struggle against American imperialism; African American literature was considered a part of the “battlefield” as well, so an ideologically bound image of “American Negro ...
Olga Yu. Panova
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Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

Southern Spaces, 2008
Speaking at Emory University on February 19, 2008, Dr. Gwin considers how attention to historical location and to locally-embodied experiences raises questions about justice, aesthetics, and memory.
Minrose Gwin
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Naming Each Place

Southern Spaces, 2010
"I always tell people I was born and raised in Shreveport, but I grew up in New Orleans." In four poems from his collection Please and an interview with Natasha Trethewey, Jericho Brown delves into double-edged father-son relationships, acquiring an ...
Jericho Brown
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Trends in James Baldwin Criticism 2001–10

James Baldwin Review, 2016
James Baldwin criticism from 2001 through 2010 is marked by an increased appreciation for Baldwin’s entire oeuvre including his writing after the mid 1960s.
Lynn Orilla Scott
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Rechercher et imaginer l’art « black » américain depuis 2005

Perspective, 2015
The literature on black artists, their art, the aesthetics of racial difference and cultural distinctiveness, and the black image has grown incrementally, from a rare phenomenon at the beginning of the twentieth century to a relatively common occurrence ...
Richard J. Powell
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