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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 154.
Other Authors: Blackshire-Belay, Carol
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.
Series:Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 154.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
English language > United States > Foreign elements > African.
American literature > African influences.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
African Americans > Languages.
Africa > In literature.
Physical Description:x, 210 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.