This year, book clubs can look forward to a great selection that has hit the market in 2007. Many selections are by first-time authors who have done a superb job with their debut novels.rnLive and Learn initially seems like something that has been hashed and rehashed, but the story of...
This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the "neo-urban novel," and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday...
The goal of this writing is to introduce the reader to the urban fiction genre, explore why adolescent African American girls may be engaging with novels from the genre, and how teachers may be able to use texts from the genre to increase literacy skills.Simone...
The Native Son,The Invisible Man and Song of Solomon are three milestone-type African-American novels,in which the writers depict the growing process of the young African-American generation.The writers point out that the basis for African-Americans finding a foothold in society is to search out...
Describes the way that three novels by African-American women--"Browngirl, Brownstones," by Paule Marshall; "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison; and "The Th... B Christian - 《Social Studies Review》 被引量: 34发表: 1989年 Critical Readings: African American Girls and Urban Fiction The ...
He is joined in this surrealist urban adventure, set in a Zimbabwean slum, by a strange cast of characters—Nester the prostitute, Phillip the Intellectual, Immaculate the abused wife, Edmund the Freedom fighter, Julia the activist, and Patricia the narrator’s white girlfriend. Marechera’s ...
Rose Rappoport Moss is an American writer born in South Africa. She has published novels, short stories, words for music and nonfiction. Moss was born in Johannesburg, and has lived in the United States since 1964. In Court, a collection of her short stories, appeared as a Penguin Modern...
Representing an African City and Urban Elite: The Nightclubs, Dance Halls, and Red-Light District of Interwar Accra. In: Diouf, M., Fredericks, R. (eds) The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities. Africa Connects. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481887_9 ...
Spratt reviews "Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930," by Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, and "Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1... Spratt,M. - 《Journal of Urban History》 被引量...
of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and ...