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Religions, 2019 In 2016 and 2017, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing both won the National Book Award for fiction, the first time that two African-American writers have won the award in consecutive years.
James Mellis
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International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2020 Academic criticism of Black African and African diaspora literature, media, and culture for youth and young adults has heretofore been largely out of the hands of scholars of African descent.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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Iperstoria, 2014 Review of Dalle piantagioni allo studio ovale. L'inserimento degli afro-americani nella politica statunitense, by Stefano Luconi.
Sara Corrizzato
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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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JAm It!, 2022 Southern US literature and African American literature often speak about racialized and dismembered bodies swallowed by the earth and never retrieved; Nature, in these instances, is hostile and “white”, as even trees become problematic symbols of ...
Carlotta Livrieri
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]
, 2019 Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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The Holy Land of Matrimony: The Complex Legacy of the Broomstick Wedding in American History [PDF]
, 2016 Many enslaved people in North America married by jumping the broomstick, but following their emancipation in 1865 most newly freed African Americans discarded the tradition.
Parry, Tyler D.
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Radical Teacher, 2018 Contributors' Notes for Radical Teacher Issue 112.
Michael Bennett
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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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African American Literature, Racial Vulnerability, and the Anthropocene
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2022 This article discusses W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), in the context of the broader debate on the role of race in the Anthropocene and in relation to Judith Butler's theory on corporeal vulnerability. Specifically,
Matthias Klestil
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