African American Literature

The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, and Community in James Baldwin

by Peter Powers

The Communist Party, the Popular Front and Reimagining “America” in Lloyd Brown’s _Iron City_

by Patrick Manning

Lloyd Brown’s Iron City narrates the story of a group of incarcerated African American communists and the relationship... more Lloyd Brown’s Iron City narrates the story of a group of incarcerated African American communists and the relationship they have with Lonnie James, who is wrongfully accused of murder. Through the work of the Communist Party, the characters in Brown’s novel challenge mainstream conceptions of race and national belonging. This occurs despite the Party’s official rhetoric of the Popular Front, or the World War II era platform that focused attention on the defeat of fascism abroad, to the neglect of domestic issues like civil rights. The Double V campaign responded to the Popular Front by advocating victory against foreign and domestic fascism; it functioned as a political expression of W.E.B. Du Bois’ double consciousness, a condition illustrated throughout Iron City. The novel articulates a re-imagined American identity. One that does not exclude based on racial difference, but instead is an American identity that depends upon difference in order to be fully realized.

“Like a Motherless Child”: Racial Education at the New York African Free School and in My Bondage and My Freedom

by Anna Mae Duane

The Civil Rights Movement and American Television in the 1960s

by Nadeem Fayaz

“Living for the City: Urban Displacement and Incarceration in Wright’s Native Son and Rajabu’s “Masudi”.” Journal of African Cultural Studies (Spring 2012): 1-19.

by Aaron L. Rosenberg

One of the neglected areas of globalization studies is the movement of people within countries. In post-colonial... more One of the neglected areas of globalization studies is the movement of people within countries. In post-colonial African nations and the antebellum United States, migration patterns have often been to urban areas. Two creative works which bear witness to these relocations are Richard Wright’s novel Native Son and Marijani Rajabu’s popular song ‘Masudi’. Both works confront the alienation and incarceration of young black men who
find themselves unable to integrate into the urban geographies of Chicago and Dar es Salaam through different rhetorical strategies orchestrated in order to precipitate realizations in their respective audiences.

Keywords: hypertextuality; migration; Africana studies; cross-genre studies; urbanization

Mojawapo ya malengo yasiosisitizwa katika masomo ya utandawazi ni yale yanayohusiana na uhamiajiwa watu ndani ya nchi zao.Kwenye nchi zaAfrika baada ya uhuru na nchi ya Marekani baada ya tarikhi ya utumwa uhamiaji wingi ulikuwa ukielekea kwenye miji mikubwa. Kazi mbili za ubunifu ambazo hushuhudia uhamiaji huo ni riwaya ya Native Son ya Richard
Wright na wimbo wa “Masudi” uliotungwa na Marijani Rajabu. Kazi hizo zote mbili zinakabiliana na kutengwa na kufungwa jela kwa vijana wawili weusi ambao wanajikuta hawawezi kujijumlisha na majiografia ya miji ya Chicago na Dar es Salaam. Wasanii hawa hutumiambinu za balagha za tofauti ili kusababisha matekelezo akilinimwa hadhira zao binafsi.

Maneno Maalum: mahusiano kati ya nakala; uhamiaji; masomo ya Afrika; kufananisha
mbinu za fasihi; masomo ya kustaarabika mjini

Review of ‘Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture,’ by Stefanie K. Dunning

by Benjamin Grimwood

‘Black Camera’ 3, no. 2 (2012): 217-219

From the Institution to the Individual - The Evolution of Celie's God in The Color Purple

by Garrett McClure

The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing

by Corinne Blackmer

Orality, Literature, and African Religions (Kenneth Mtata and Jonathan A. Draper)

by Kenneth Mtata

The Renaissance of the Bantu Languages in Literature

by Susanna Iacona Salafia

Playing for the" Center:"" Marginal Modernism" in Sh. An-sky's" Der Dybuk" and Zora Neale Hurston's _Polk County_

by Rachel Jablon

Teaching ethnic American literary anthologies

by Rachel Jablon

Beyond City Limits: Edward P. Jones's Uncollected Short Fiction

by Daniel Davis Wood

published in Edward P. Jones: New Essays edited by Daniel Davis Wood. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011: 205-211.

ANNA JULIA COOPER

by Melanie Levinson

Jean-Paul Sartre, entre Richard Wright et Mathieu Delarue

by Yan Hamel

Unmaking the Male Body: The Politics of Masculinity in The Long Dream

by Jeffrey Geiger

The One Great Discontinuity: African American Recontructions of the American Family Idyll

by Gerald David Naughton

From doctoral thesis submitted to University College Dublin in 2008

This study analyses the link between America's first and second Reconstructions and the trope of family. The thesis... more This study analyses the link between America's first and second Reconstructions and the trope of family. The thesis focusses predominantly on African American writing that has been produced from within the symbolic terrain of American family. Novelists considered include William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, Sutton E. Griggs, James Weldon Johnston, and Charles Chesnutt. The study concludes with a comparative analysis of James Baldwin and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Dying Objects/Living Things: The Thingness of Poetry in Yusef Komunyakaa’s TALKING DIRTY TO THE GODS

by Daniel Cross Turner

MOSAIC: A JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF LITERATURE
Special Issue *Between Poetry and Philosophy*
45:1 (March 2012)

What is happening in the space between poetry and philosophy today? The thirteen essays collected in the March 2012 Mosaic special issue take up this question―in thirteen different ways. For example, in one essay, Heidegger’s question, “What is the thing?” is directed to the “thingness” of poetry; another essay reads Mark McMorris’s experimental (postcolonial) poetics alongside the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; still another reads Erin Mouré’s O Cadoiro with Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever. Plato is brought together with Giorgio Agamben, Wallace Stevens with Roland Barthes, and the poet with the philosopher in Nietzsche’s writing. This is a special issue.

Drawing on interdisciplinary work on the significance of cultural artefacts by scholars such as Bill Brown and W.J.T.... more Drawing on interdisciplinary work on the significance of cultural artefacts by scholars such as Bill Brown and W.J.T. Mitchell, this essay explores images of things in Komunyakaa’s recent mythopoetic verse while connecting this motif to the thingness of poetry itself, the latent and insistent force of its rhythmic form.

“A Space Beyond Beulah: Assessing the Mixed Race Body in Danzy Senna’s ‘The Land of Beulah.’’”

by Simone Drake

Published in: America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture.  Ed. Carol E. Henderson.  Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.

“’So I Decided to Quit It and Try Something Else for a While’: Reading Agency in Nat Love’s The Life and Adventure of Nat Love.”

by Simone Drake

Eds. Peter Caster and Timothy Buckner. Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2011.