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Introduction: African American Children’s Literature

Humanities
Accepting the notion that “childhood” and “adulthood” are social constructs and not biological facts affords an opportunity to see and understand how the lived experiences of children and adults, past and present, intersect in complicated and ...
Neal A. Lester
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Dante in African American Literature

Филологический класс, 2022
Dante in African American Literature as a theme of Dante studies has been developed by the Ameri- can scholar of Italian literature Dennis Looney. The article is written as a critical rethinking of Looney’s book and articles, in particular his concept ...
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Female genital mutilation in African and African American women's literature

Acta Neophilologica, 2007
The article builds on the existing dispute between African and African American women writers on the competence of writing about female genital mutilation (FGM), and tries to determine the existence and nature of the differences between the writings of ...
Darja Marinšek
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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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Art and Storytelling on the Streets: The Council on Interracial Books for Children’s Use of African American Children’s Literature

Humanities, 2023
From 1970 until 1974, the Council on Interracial Children’s Books (CIBC) ran the Arts and Storytelling in the Streets program throughout New York City. This program involved African American and Puerto Rican artists and storytellers bringing children’s ...
Nick Batho
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James Baldwin’s Quest for Ethics Echoing Leo Tolstoy [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2022
The paper deals with the ethical principles of James Arthur Baldwin, an outstanding US writer of the mid-20th century, which echo the moral imperatives of Leo Tolstoy. African American writers traditionally displayed great interest in Russian literature,
Yuri V. Stulov
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Reading the Harlem Renaissance one hundred years later: context, names, and influence

Anuário de Literatura, 2023
The Harlem Renaissance was a modernist movement of self-affirmation of black identity in the arts that, in dialogue with anticolonial articulations, reached its peak in the 1920s, in the United States.
Giovane Alves de Souza
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An Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) reincarnates in Manchild in the Promised Land (Claude Brown) and becomes Shadows of Your Black Memory (Donato Ndongo)

Altre Modernità, 2011
Ralph Ellison’s allegorical journey in Invisible Man (1994) launched a new era in African-American culture and Black literacy for the entire world in 1952.
Rosetta Codling
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Ascertaining differences between farmer and non-farmer African American forest landowners in Georgia, United States

Trees, Forests and People, 2021
Despite the importance of farming to rural African Americans (Gilbert et al., 2002) and the role of farmers in forestland ownership, very little literature addresses the role of African American farmers in forestry.
Noah Goyke, Puneet Dwivedi
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Looking for Kunta Kinte: Alex Haley's Roots and African American Genealogies

Iperstoria, 2014
As the 30th anniversary 2006 edition recalls, Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family was a big popular success: in 1976, the year it was published, “the book sold over one million copies” and in 1977 the miniseries created out of it “was ...
Elisa Bordin
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