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Uncommon Readers
David Daiches discusses literary criticism and its history. In comparing models of literary criticism he refers to traditional approaches, deconstruction, and feminist and black writing. He stresses the importance of understanding the historical context and the language of time and … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American literature, Deconstructionist writing, Feminist Literature, Literary Criticism
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American Themes
Jack Greene addresses developments in the 1980s in the writing of American colonial studies. R. W. B. Lewis discusses themes in American literature and culture in the 1980s, praising African American women writers like Toni Morrison and Robert Penn Warren and … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American literature, African-American women, American history, American literature -- twentieth century
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Afro-American Literary Culture
According to Houston Baker, Afro-American literature in the United States in the mid-1980s has only recently found legitimacy and acceptance. Many literary historians and critics considered Afro-American literature to be nontraditional in both form and content. In the figure of the … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American literature, History
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Afro-American Culture, Literature, and Social Order, Part 6 of 6
Houston Baker discusses his research on blues music and its place in American culture, which was published as Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Short recorded examples illustrate early African-American influences on the blues style, such as the … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American literature, Music -- African American, The Blues
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Afro-American Culture, Literature, and Social Order, Part 4 of 6
John Sekora and Darwin Turner examine the content and structure of African-American slave narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and explain why these narratives merit scholarly and popular attention. They speak about the distribution of slave narratives, the composition … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, African-American literature, Slave narratives
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Afro-American Culture, Literature, and Social Order, Part 1 of 6
Houston Baker, Blyden Jackson, James Olney, and John Sekora examine the status of African-American writing and literature in the mid-1980s and discuss changes in awareness of black writing to academic and popular audiences. They note increasing interest in and knowledge of … Continue reading
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