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      A biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in the debates over Black men and the violence of racism

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      Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

      Trudier Harris

      African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is…

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      From Mammies to Militants

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      Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris's classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in Black American literature with…

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      Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

      Trudier Harris

      Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture.

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      From Mammies to Militants

      Trudier Harris

      Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris's classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in Black American literature with…

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      Black Women Fiction James Baldwin

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      In James Baldwin’s fiction, according to Trudier Harris, black women are conceptually limited figures until their author ceases to measure them by standards of the community fundamentalist church. Harris analyzes…

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      Depictions of Home in African American Literature

      Trudier Harris

      This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that…

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      Depictions of Home in African American Literature

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      This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that…

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      New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain

      The scholars in this collection posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide elucidating approaches to…

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      Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals

      Trudier Harris

      By reviewing the historical and literary interconnections of the rituals of exorcism, Harris opens up the hidden psyche–the soul–of black American writers.

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      Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South

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      In Summer Snow, Trudier Harris has brought together a collection of personal essays that blend humor, intelligence, and keen observations to describe her life as a Daughter of the South…

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      The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South

      Trudier Harris

      New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare…

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      New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain

      The scholars in this collection posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide elucidating approaches to…

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      The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan

      Trudier Harris

      Southern literature is often celebrated for its told rather than written qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbours, Trudier Harris looks across the…

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      The Power of the Porch: Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Randall Kenan

      Trudier Harris

      This text examines the power of the front porch storytelling techniques, celebrating the oral tradition of the Black American South. It focuses on three contemporary southern writers, whom the author…

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      Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance

      Among the African-American authors featured in this volume are James Madison Bell, Charles Chestnutt, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson and Harriet E…

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      Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940

      This volume-one of six DLB volumes discussing African-American writers-represents a peak period in African-American literary activity sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro era, and lasting from about 1915…

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      Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers, 1940-55

      Among the African-American writers featured in this volume are Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Naomi Long Madgett, Ann Petry, Dorothy West and Richard Wright.

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      South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

      Trudier Harris-Lopez

      This work aims to show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of the 20th century. It addresses themes of sexual and racial identity, reconceptualizations of and…

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      Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self

      Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, and Pearl Cleage find their creative inspiration in…

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      Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955

      The mid-1950s brought changes not only to the political and social worlds of African-Americans in the United States, but to their literary world as well-changes reflected in and effected by…

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      Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers After 1955 - Dramatists and Prose Writers

      Since the mid-1950s, drama has emerged as a major genre for African-Americans writers. The flood of creative outpourings in the 1960s that led to the black arts movement brought in…

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      Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Poets Since 1955

      In African-American literary history, one of the most striking phenomena has been the tremendous outpouring of poetry since the mid-1950s. Since the first successful boycotts of the Civil Rights movement…

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      Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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      Four of Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s moving anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they elegantly speak…

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      Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work

      Delores Phillips, Linda Miller, Trudier Harris, Delia Steverson

      Expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Stumbling Blocks illuminates and expands the legacy of an underrepresented writer who is uniquely situated at…

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      The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

      This abridgement collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and careers of writers not found in other reference…

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      Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work

      Delores Phillips, Linda Miller, Trudier Harris, Delia Steverson

      Expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Stumbling Blocks illuminates and expands the legacy of an underrepresented writer who is uniquely situated at…

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      Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!

      Karima K. Jeffrey

      This book examines twentieth and twenty-first century speculative fiction films that represent women and girls of African descent Jeffrey offers insights about positive developments while calling attention to questionable trends…

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      Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads

      The essays in Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads explore complex intersections among the social categories of race, gender and sexuality within personal ads, revealing a dynamic tapestry of…

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      Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads

      The essays in Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads explore complex intersections among the social categories of race, gender and sexuality within personal ads, revealing a dynamic tapestry of…

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      Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon

      Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies

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      Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon

      Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies

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