Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Blackshire-Belay, Carol

Description

1. x, 210 pages; 25 cm

Series statement

1. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 154

Uniform title

1. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 154.

Subject

1. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
2. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
3. English language > United States > Foreign elements > African
4. American literature > African influences
5. African Americans > Intellectual life
6. African Americans in literature
7. African Americans > Languages
8. African American aesthetics
9. 18.06 Anglo-American literature
10. American literature > African American authors
11. English language > Foreign elements > African
12. Literature
13. Literatur
14. Aufsatzsammlung
15. Poetik
16. Black English
17. Schwarze
18. Schrijvers
19. Zelfbeeld
20. Amerikaans
21. Geschichte 1900-1970
22. Africa > In literature
23. Africa
24. United States
25. USA
26. USA
27. Schwarze
28. Black English

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Aufsatzsammlung.

Contents

1. 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.
2. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.