Of dreams deferred, dead or alive : African perspectives on African-American writers / edited by Femi Ojo-Ade.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ojo-Ade, Femi
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 180.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > Appreciation > Africa. Africa > In literature. African Americans in literature. English literature > By > Black persons. United States.
Physical Description:	xv, 193 pages ; 25 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Africa and America : a question of continuities, cleavage, and dreams deferred / Femi Ojo-Ade
W.E.B. Du Bois : the man and his vision of Africa for Africans / F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam
Langston Hughes and Africa / Eddie Omotayo Asgill
Richard Wright : a dubious legacy / Chimalum Nwankwo
Claude McKay : the tragic solitude of an exiled son of Africa / Femi Ojo-Ade
Another African artist's wayward thoughts on Eugene Redmond's poetry / Tess Onwueme
Branches of the same tree : African and African-American poetry / Tanure Ojaide
Notions and nuances : Africa in the works of James Baldwin / Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Reviewing Gloria Naylor : toward a Neo-African critique / Vincent O. Odamtten
Creative African memory : some oral sources of Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" / Ousseynou Traore
The circle of meaning : Paule Marshall, modernism, and the masks of history / Simon Gikandi
Homesick and eurocentric? : Alice Walker's Africa / Nwikali Kieti
"I is" : Toni Morrison, the past, and Africa / Chimalum Nwankwo
Afterward : what's in a name? / Femi Ojo-Ade.