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Published: 18 November 2020
... collage Huxley Aldous Shakespeare William Suckling John rjs screen printing Warhol Andy mimesis transparency Roberts Jennifer Thomas Don Ponge Francis letterpress affordance Microsoft Word Derrida Jacques Russell Atkins D. A. Levy Muntu African American literature concrete poetry Hough...
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Published: 01 September 2003
... as in AfricanAmerican literature, which has long been demonstrating that the dehumanization of African–Americans was essential to the definition of universal humanity in print modernism. Yet the archive of AfricanAmerican literature is never consulted in postmodern debates on modern humanism and print culture...
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Published: 01 September 2003
... action Dove Rita Pinckney Darryl pluralism word processing cultural capital AfricanAmerican literature rural South postmodern literary imagination urban literary representation Toni Morrison Gloria Naylor magic oral tradition black community The signs don't lie. At least not these signs...
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Published: 15 December 2008
... cultural pluralism democracy value theory race culture value African American literature African art In 1948, near the end of his teaching career—and near the end of his life— Alain Locke was asked to teach at the New School in New York City. Given virtual carte blanche, Locke offered three courses...
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Published online: 22 September 2022
Published in print: 01 April 2022
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Published: 15 July 2011
...This chapter examines African American literature in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. It analyzes the overlooked works of Julian Mayfield and Chester Himes and provides new insights into the crises confronting the more canonized members of the black literati during this period. The chapter...
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Published: 01 September 2003
... of dance Naylor Gloria fetishism Osiris camera magic postmodernism AfricanAmerican literature racial representation black community Ishmael Reed John Edgar Wideman It is difficult to write about late-twentieth-century U.S. culture without taking on the term postmodernism, which...
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Published online: 21 February 2013
Published in print: 01 September 2003
...This book considers what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in AfricanAmerican literature. The author argues that for African–American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print...
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Published: 18 November 2020
... Fyodor Sollers Philippe prose Riffaterre Michael Saussure Ferdinand de coffin Gavronsky Serge Levin Samuel R signature Martin Heidegger Francis Ponge N. H. Pritchard Michael Riffaterre African American literature Black Arts Bowery concrete poetry typograpy Les choses sont toujours déjà...
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Published: 02 January 2021
... histories. Disciplinary histories, focused on elite, predominantly white universities, have seen curricular integration as a matter of adding Black writers to preexisting syllabuses or offering specialized classes in African American literature. This chapter restores to view an earlier classroom-based model...
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Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 18 November 2020
...-recognized writers (including P. Inman and N. H. Pritchard) and in which the innovations of African American literature are understood to be integral to the history of experimental poetry....