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Manifestations of Racial Discrimination as Shown in selected Poems by Maya Angelou [PDF]

open access: yesBeni-Suef University International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
This research aims to highlight the unique existence of black women as they go on their daily lives in a land in which tyranny over women is still evident. Maya Angelou is a poet who presents the existence of being black, poor, and female.
Hanaa Eid   +2 more
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Translating Culture: Contemporary African American Poetry

open access: yesELOPE, 2015
The paper interrogates cultural specifics of contemporary African American poetry and exhibits translation problems when translating this poetic work. African American writers have always included much of their cultural heritage in their writing and this
Kristina Kočan Šalamon
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2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
An evening event of the 2014 Callaloo Conference held at Emory University, the annual Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading featured Jericho Brown and Kevin Young reading their own work. Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey greets conference attendees and
Kevin Young, Jericho Brown
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“Beholding the Lamb of God”: Jupiter Hammon, the First America’s Black Christian Poet [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2022
The role of Christianity as a factor that exerted a decisive influence over African American social and cultural history, is being debated time and again in the course of African American studies.
Olga Yu. Panova
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After Hours, Through the Night: Jazz Poetry and the Temporality of Emergence

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2020
While popular music has long been recognized as central to the Black Power movement and its writers, jazz has also served as a mode of decolonial thinking for Red Power writers.
Audrey Goodman
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Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
Natasha Trethewey welcomes the 2014 Callaloo Conference, "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," and Charles Henry Rowell describes the significance of this scholarly gathering hosted at Emory University.
Natasha Trethewey, Charles Henry Rowell
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African and African American Studies Newsletter, Spring Quarter 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This is the inaugural eight page newsletter created by the Wright State University African and African American Studies Program documenting course offerings, faculty and student news, faculty and student reflections, and more.
African and African American Studies
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Talking Back: Phillis Wheatley, Race, and Religion

open access: yesReligions, 2019
This essay examines the means by which African American poet Phillis Wheatley uses her evangelical Christianity to engage issues of race in revolutionary America.
Keith Byerman
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Women’s Poetry that Heals across Borders: A Trans-American Reading of the Body, Sexuality, and Love

open access: yesFeminismo/s, 2021
Drawing on the idea of literature as healing (Wilentz), this article examines the anti-dualistic restoring defense of the body, sexuality, and love in Angelou (African American), Cisneros (Chicana), and Peri Rossi (Uruguayan Spanish).
Núñez-Puente, Carolina
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