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Title:

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

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

x, 210 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Africa in literature.
Afro-American aesthetics.
Afro-Americans--Intellectual life.
Afro-Americans--Language.
Afro-Americans in literature.
American literature--African influences.
American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English language--United States--African.--African.

Other Authors:

Blackshire-Belay, Carol.

Notes:

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 develoment 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.

Series:

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

ISBN:

9780313278266 (alk. paper)
0313278261 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25629698

LCCN:

92012509

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)