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  • Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction

    Author(s):
    Travis M. Foster (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    White nationalism, Race, American Civil War (United States , Literary form, Literary theory
    Item Type:
    Book section
    Tag(s):
    campus novels, Ladies' Home Journal, Gospel Sermons, Civil War Elegies, American Civil War, Genre theory, The ordinary

  • Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse

    Author(s):
    Anne Donlon (see profile) , Evelyn Scaramella
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, Spanish Civil War Studies
    Subject(s):
    Poetry, American literature--African American authors, Spanish Civil War (Spain , American poetry--African American authors
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    internationalism, African American literature, Spanish Civil War, African American poetry

  • 'Freedom, Equality, and Race’: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    Blacks--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Sonia Sanchez, James Baldwin, self-fashioning, Black studies

  • Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    CLCS Caribbean, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    Travel writing, Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, Slavery, Poetics
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Albert Murray, Hortense Spillers, diaspora, breadfruit, Travel narratives, William Faulkner, Transnational Americas

  • The Afrofuturist Historical Novel

    Author(s):
    Whit Frazier Peterson (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, LLC African American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Afrofuturism, Historical fiction, American literature--African American authors, African Americans
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    literary analysis, African American literature, New genre studies, African American

  • 'You Can't Flow Over This': Ursula Rucker's Acoustic Illusion

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Popular Culture
    Subject(s):
    Hip-hop, American poetry--African American authors, Beat literature, Popular culture, Blacks--Social life and customs
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    The Roots, Bob Kaufman, Foxy Brown, Rape Culture, Blaxsploitation, Hip Hop, Hip-hop studies, African American poetry, Black popular culture

  • Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC African American, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Speculative fiction, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Octavia Butler, Henri Bergson, sexual assault, interracial, African American literature, Historical literacy, Trauma, Embodiment

  • Vernaculars of Home

    Author(s):
    John E. Drabinski (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching, African Americans, Expression, African Americans--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    James Baldwin, language and nationalism, African American cultural studies, African American expression, African American studies

  • Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    LLC African American, TC Memory Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, American poetry--African American authors, American literature, Nineteenth century, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Harlem Renaissance, Kristeva, Julia, 1941-, Poetics, Poetry, Psychoanalysis
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Helene Johnson, Hortense Spillers, Jacques Lacan, Melvin Dixon, African American literature, African American poetry, American literature after 1800, Julia Kristeva, Literary theory

  • 17, or, Tough, Dark, Vulnerable, Moody: James Baldwin

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    LLC African American, TC Memory Studies
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching, American literature--African American authors, African Americans--Study and teaching, Political science, Morrison, Toni
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    childhood, Lorraine Hansberry, Lyotard, RFK, African American cultural studies, African American literature, African American studies, Literary criticism, Political theory, Toni Morrison 

  • Richard Wright's Globalism

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Postcolonialism, Literature, African diaspora, Race, Ethnicity, Twentieth century
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Black Atlantic, American novel, African American literature, World literature, African diaspora literature, Race/ethnicity, 20th-century literature

  • Centuries of Black Artists' Books

    Author(s):
    Charlie Gleek (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC African American, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
    Subject(s):
    Printing--Social aspects, African Americans--Study and teaching, Books, History, Culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    artists' book, Print culture, African American studies, Book history, Cultural studies

  • Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

    Author(s):
    Jesse A. Goldberg (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Fiction, Twenty-first century, Economics and literature, Slavery, United States, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    African American literature, Contemporary fiction, Literature and economics, American studies

  • From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today

    Author(s):
    Dennis Looney (see profile)
    Date:
    2001
    Group(s):
    CLCS Classical and Modern, CLCS Medieval, CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC African American, LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
    Subject(s):
    Italian literature, Middle Ages, American literature--African American authors, Slavery, Protestantism, Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Morrison, Toni
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    Amiri Baraka, Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, Ralph Waldo Ellison, Medieval Italian literature, African American literature, Abolition, Dante, Toni Morrison 

  • The Question of Recovery: An Introduction

    Author(s):
    Laura Helton (see profile) , Justin Leroy, Max Mishler, Samantha Seeley, Shauna Sweeney
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American, TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
    Subject(s):
    Archives, African Americans, History, Slavery, Caribbean Area, Area studies, Blacks--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    African American history, Caribbean studies, Black studies

  • Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism

    Author(s):
    Charles Gleek (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    LLC African American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African Americans, History, American literature--African American authors, Nineteenth century, Printing--Social aspects, Political participation, African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    Colored Conventions, African American history, 19th-century African American literature, Print culture, Activism, African American cultural studies

  • Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Performance art--Study and teaching, Fiction, Narration (Rhetoric), African Americans--Social life and customs, African Americans
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, American novel, Theory of Narrative, African American literature, Performance studies, Novel (genre), Narrative, African American culture, African American

  • Blake and the Black Newspaper

    Author(s):
    Benjamin Fagan (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Early American
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Periodicals--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    African American literature, Periodical studies

  • Entitles: Booker T. Washington's Signs of Play

    Author(s):
    Susanna Margaret Ashton (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching, Deconstruction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Memoirs, Literacy narratives, African American cultural studies

  • Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch

    Author(s):
    Sarah E. Chinn (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Group(s):
    Feminist Humanities, Gender Studies, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Disability Studies, TC Sexuality Studies
    Subject(s):
    Disabilities, Gay culture in literature, Sex, Vision, Blindness
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Blindness, lesbian sexuality, lorde, Disability, Gay and lesbian literature, Sexuality, Sight and blindness

  • Ritual Structure and Rites of Passage in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman

    Author(s):
    Adewale Bankole Ajayi (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    GS Drama and Performance, GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC African American, LLC African to 1990
    Subject(s):
    Ritual--Study and teaching, Mythology, Social change, Theater, Africa, African drama
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    ritual, sacrifice, burial rites, Kingship, colonialism, Ritual studies, Postcolonial literature, Sociology of social change, African theatre

  • Ritualization as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan

    Author(s):
    Adewale Bankole Ajayi (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    GS Drama and Performance, GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC African American, LLC African to 1990
    Subject(s):
    African literature, Marxian school of sociology, Mythology, Aesthetics
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    marxian aesthetics, myth, ritual, social change, the mimetic, Literary criticism, Marxist sociology

  • "On Élie and Eric"

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    LLC African American, LLC Francophone, TC Law and the Humanities, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    Slavery, History, African Americans, African diaspora, Caribbean Area
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    History of slavery, African American, Caribbean history

  • Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    Musical criticism, Music, History, Race, Ethnicity, African diaspora
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Music criticism, Classical music, Music history, Race/ethnicity

  • The Critical and the Creative: A Feminist Praxis for Borderland Narratives of the U.S./North America(s)

    Author(s):
    Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, American literature, Comparative literature, Feminist theory, Postcolonialism
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Border studies, critical theory, epistemology, geography, hermeneutics

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