Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Record 8 of 17
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook

Title Language and literature in the African American imagination / edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9896 L287L    Check Shelf
Description x, 210 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 154
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 154.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Afrocentricity and literary theory : the maturing imagination / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- Locating a text : implications of Afrocentric theory / Molefi Kete Asante -- Refusing to be boxed in : Sonia Sanchez's transformation of the Haiku form / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey -- Reassessing African American literature through an Afrocentric paradigm : Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin / Carolyn L. Holmes -- Cultural and linguistic transitions : the comparative case of African Americans and ethnic minorities in Germany / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- African languages in the African American experience / Alamin Mazrui -- Kitchen table talk : J. California Cooper's use of Nommo-female bonding and transcendence / Barbara J. Marshall.
Dilemma of the dutiful servant : the poetry of Jupiter Hammon / Lonnell E. Johnson -- The blue/black poetics of Sonia Sanchez / Regina B. Jennings -- Afrocentric aesthetics in selected Harlem Renaissance poetry / Abu Shardow Abarry -- Folk idiom in the literary expression of two African American authors : Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa / Kirkland C. Jones -- From nice colored girl to womanist : an exploration of development in Ntozake Shange's writings / Geta LeSeur -- De Jure Maurorum in Europa (on the rights of Blacks in Europe) : a Black civil rights activist in Europe in the eighteenth century / Reginald Bess -- The African American imagination in language and literature : an afterword / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
English language -- United States -- Foreign elements -- African.
American literature -- African influences.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Languages.
African American aesthetics.
Africa -- In literature.
Indexed Term English literature By Black persons
United States
Added Author Blackshire-Belay, Carol.
ISBN 0313278261 alkaline paper
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español