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简介：This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American writers. It also examines how music and musicians in fiction have exemplified the sensibilities of African Americans and provided paradigms for an African American literary tradition. The fictional representation of African American music by black authors is traced from the nineteenth century (William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, Pauline E. Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar) through the early twentieth century and the Harlem Renaissance (James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) to the 1940s and 50s (Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison) and the 1960s and the Black Arts Movement (Margaret Walker, William Melvin Kelley, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Henry Dumas). In the century between Brown and Baraka, the representation of music in black fiction went through a dramatic metamorphosis. Music occupied a representative role in African American culture from which writers drew ideas and inspiration. The music provided a way out of a limited situation by offering a viable option to the strictures of racism. Individuals who overcome these limitations then become role models in the struggle toward equality. African American musical forms-for both artist and audience-also offerd a way of looking at the world, survival, and resistance. The black musician became a ritual leader. This study delineates how black writers have captured the spirit of the music that played such a pivotal role in African American culture. (Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993; revised with new preface and index)

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简介：In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the United States into three periods. The first, which spans the 1920s and 1930s, features minority writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and D'Arcy McNickle. The second period, from 1940 to the mid-1960s, was a time of assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong, John Okada, and Ralph Ellison. The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzald煤a. Book jacket.

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简介：Includes works by James Joyce, Kate Chopin, Lee K. Abbott, Chinua Achebe, Julia Alvarez, Sherwood Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Babel, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Ann Beattie, Ambrose Bierce, Heinrich Boll, Jorge Luis Borges, Kay Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Hortense Calisher, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Sandra Cisneros, Colette, Julio Cortazar, Stephen Crane, Isak Dinesen, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gail Godwin, Nadine Gordimer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Ursula K. LeGuin, Doris Lessing, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Bobbie Ann Mason, Guy de Maupassant, Yukio Mishima, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Cynthia Ozick, Dorothy Parker, I.L. Peretz, Luigi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amy Tan, James Thurber, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, John Edgar Wideman, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry James, Howard Moss, and others.

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简介：　　Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Taking the singular instance of the African American writer to heart, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way. Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era through the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our reception of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of "classic" writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.　　

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简介：African American Literary Theory is an extraordinary gift to literary studies. It is necessary, authoritative and thorough. The timing of this book is superb!" Karla F.C. Holloway, Duke University "The influence of African American literature can be attributed, in no small part, to the literary theorists gathered in this collection. This is a superb anthology that represents a diversity of voices and points of view, and a much needed historical retrospective of how African American literary theory has developed." Marlon B. Ross, University of Michigan "A volume of great conceptual significance and originality in its focus on the development of African American literary theory." Farah Jasmine Griffin, University of Pennsylvania African American Literary Theory: A Readeris the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period. By constantly bringing attention to the larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of literary texts, the critics gathered here have contributed mightily to the prominence and popularity of African American literature in this country and abroad. African American Literary Theoryprovides a unique historical analysis of how these thinkers have shaped literary theory, and literature at large, and will be a indispensable text for the study of African American intellectual culture. Contributors include Sandra Adell, Michael Awkward, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Hazel V. Carby, Barbara Christian, W.E.B. DuBois, Ann duCille, Ralph Ellison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Addison Gayle Jr., Carolyn F. Gerald, Evelynn Hammonds, Phillip Brian Harper, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, Stephen E. Henderson, Karla F.C. Holloway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Joyce A. Joyce, Alain Locke, Wahneema Lubiano, Deborah E. McDowell, Harryette Mullen, Larry Neal, Charles I. Nero, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Marlon B. Ross, George S. Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Sherley Anne Williams, and Richard Wright.

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简介："In the African-American Grain" is a powerful exploration of the impact of African-American oral storytelling techniques on modern and contemporary fiction. Reading literature in the call-and-response tradition, John F. Callahan shows how African-American writers including Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, and Alice Walker have used the forms and forces of this uniquely participatory discourse to establish not only a potential relationship between storyteller and audience but also a potential for change. In a new preface, Callahan comments on how the tradition of call-and-response has continued to develop among African-American writers as well as writers of other backgrounds.

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简介：Includes reviews and commentary by Vachel Lindsay, Hugo Munsterberg, Carl Sandburg, Robert E. Sherwood, Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, H.D., Alexander Bakshy, Harry Alan Potamkin, Gilbert Seldes, Pare Lorentz, William Troy, Cecilia Ager, Andre Sennwald, Rudolf Arnheim, Lincoln Kirstein, Meyer Levin, Otis Ferguson, Melvin B. Tolson, Paul Goodman, James Agee, Siegfried Kracauer, Robert Warshow, Ralph Ellison, Martha Wolfenstein, Nathan Leites, Barbara Deming, Manny Farber, Parker Tyler, Eugene Archer, Arlene Croce, Jonas Mekas, Stanley Kauffmann, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Dwight MacDonald, Renata Adler, Donald Phelps, Vincent Canby, William S. Pechter, Molly Haskell, Paul Schrader, John Simon, Brendan Gill, Richard Corliss, James Baldwin, Penelope Gilliatt, Walter Kerr, J. Hoberman, Stanley Cavell, Richard Schickel, Armond White, David Denby, Geoffrey O'Brien, Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner), David Thomson, Bell Hooks, Kenneth Turan, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Roger Ebert, Stuart Klawans, James Harvey, Kent Jones, John Ashbery, Carrie Rickey, Gilberto Perez, A.O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis.

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简介：Includes short stories, plays, and poems by Emily Dickinson, Gail Godwin, Karen Van der Zee, Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mark Halliday, William Faulkner, Andre Dubus, Charles Dickens, Bharati Mukherjee, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Fay Weldon, Toni Cade Bambara, Anton Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Crane, Katherine Mansfield, Dagoberto Gilb, Raymond Carver, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Susan Minot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Stephen King, D.H. Lawrence, Tim O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, John Updike, Bessie Head, Naguib Mahfouz, Bi Shumin, Alison Baker, Tobias Wolff, Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Wole Soyinka, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Bruce Springsteen, Queen Latifah, John Donne, Li Ho, Robert Hass, Randall Jarrell, Derek Walcott, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Diane Ackerman, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Sharon Olds, John Keats, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sappho, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Rosario Castellanos, Dylan Thomas, J. Patrick Lewis, Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, Robert Frost, Robert Bly, John Ciardi, Gary Soto, May Swenson, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Lewis Carroll, William Butler Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Julia Alvarez, Maya Angelou, Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Susan Glaspell, Aristotle, Freud, Sophocles, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Claribel Alegria, Anna Akhmatova, Tennyson, Henrik Ibsen, David Henry Hwang, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and others.

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简介：Publisher's description: From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novelsof Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Keith Clark examines short stories, novels, and plays by Baldwin, Gaines, and Wilson, arguing that since the 1950s the three have interrupted and radically dismantled the constricting literary depictions of black men who equate selfhood with victimization, isolation, and patriarchy. Instead, they have reimagined black men whose identity is grounded in community, camaraderie, and intimacy. Delivering original and startling insights, this book will appeal to scholars and students of African American literature.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Chronicles the early life of the author, intellectual, and social critic from his birth in Oklahoma in 1913 to receiving the National Book Award in 1953.   Publisher Summary 2 AUTHOR. INTELLECTUAL. SOCIAL CRITIC. ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS OF ALL TIME. RALPH ELLISON Praise for Ralph Ellison Emergence of Geniu "Dr. Lawrence Jackson?s remarkable biography of Ralph Ellison is an essential contribution to the scholarship on one of the twentieth century?s greatest writers. Painstakingly researched and exhaustive, this compelling portrait of Ellison clarifies his genius??and his intellectual era??for a new century."??Charles Johnson, National Book Award Winner and author of Middle Passag "Lawrence Jackson?s absorbing biography of Ralph Ellison makes a vital contribution to American literary history."??Ross Posnock, English Department, New York University, Author of Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectua "Professor Lawrence Jackson?s painstaking documentation of Ralph Ellison?s early life and the beginning of his literary career provides a much needed resource for Ellison?s readers and critics."??Horace Porter, author of Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America and Director of African Studies at the University of Iow "An eloquently written and exquisitely researched biography. There is nothing quite like it. Jackson breathes life into those hidden nooks and crannies of Ellison?s youth that would later become cannon fodder for the grown Ellison?s explorations. An utterly groundbreaking biography, the idea of Ralph Ellison will never be the same."??Jerry Watts, author of Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life  

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简介：　　This collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satire, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, and snaps documents the evolution of African American humor over the past two centuries. It includes routines and writings from such luminaries as Bert Williams, Butterbeans and Susie, Stepin Fetchit, Moms Mabley, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Redd Foxx, Ishmael Reed, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Martin Lawrence, and Chris Rock. This anthology includes classic stage routines, literary examples, and witty quotations presented in their entirety.　　

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简介：Published in 1884, Huckberry Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelly Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American voices played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how African-American voices have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature. Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most art-less, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying" - satire in an African-American vein - when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well - but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized. Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon. American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought.

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简介：　　 　　this norton critical edition contains michael katz's new translation of the 1863 novel, introduced and annotated specifically for english-speaking readers. [b]backgrounds and sources[/b], also freshly translated by the editor, includes excerpts from dostoevsky's letters and notebooks and from "winter notes on summer impressions," as well as a substantial extract from n. g. chernyshevsky's novel [i]what is to be done?[/i], the utilitarianism of which dostoevsky replies to in [i]notes from underground.[/i] since its publication, [i]notes from underground[/i] has been emulated and parodied. by assembling varied responses to the text, michael katz links this seminal novel to the underground-man-inspired works of mikhail saltykov-shchendrin, woody allen, robert walser, ralph ellison, and john lennon and paul mccartney. a broad selection of criticism includes the work of both russian and western critics from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-from nikolai mikhailovsky and lev shestov to ralph e. matlaw and joseph frank. a chronology of dostoevsky's life and career is included, as are a list of principle translations and a selected bibliography. [p]no other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the [b]norton critical editions[/b]. each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. norton critical editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide. 　　

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简介：Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision. - Dust jacket.

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简介：Includes short stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Chesnutt, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, John Steinbeck, Issac Bashevis Singer, R.K. Narayan, Eudora Welty, Naguib Mahfouz, John Cheever, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Ralph Ellison, Doris Lessing, Grace Paley, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, James Baldwin, Kobo Abe, Flannery O'Connor, Yukio Mishima, Clarice Lispector, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chinua Achebe, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Alice Munro, John Updike, Elena Poniatowska, Gerald Vizenor, Chen Rong, Bessie Head, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Amos Oz, Bharati Mukherjee, Bobbie Ann Mason, John Edgar Wideman, Isabel Allende, Sergio Ramirez, James Alan McPherson, Alice Walker, Robert Olen Butler, Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, Ann Beattie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, Haruki Murakami, Gloria Naylor, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Gary Soto, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth Tallent, Reginald McKnight, and David Leavitt.

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简介：American novelists of the 20th century have rejected an objective perspective on the world in favor of one that resembles the transcendental and epistemological investigations by earlier novelists and poets.The New Romanticismis an overview of this romantic trend in contemporary fiction. This volume includes three classic essays on romanticism by Saul Bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison, as well as essays on the works of John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Vladamir Nabakov, Toni Morrison, John hawkes, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, and J.D. Salinger.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A defense of liberalism in modernist and contemporary American writers   Publisher Summary 2 In times of liberal despair it helps to have someone like John Carlos Rowe put things into perspective, in this case, with a collection of essays that asks the question, "Must we throw out liberalism's successes with the neoliberal bathwater?" Rowe first lays out a genealogy of early twentieth-century modernists, such as Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, with an eye toward stressing their transnationally engaged liberalism and their efforts to introduce into the literary avant-garde the concerns of politically marginalized groups, whether defined by race, class, or gender. The second part of the volume includes essays on the works of Harper Lee, Thomas Berger, Louise Erdrich, and Philip Roth, emphasizing the continuity of efforts to represent domestic political and social concerns. While critical of the increasingly conservative tone of the neoliberalism of the past quarter-century, Rowe rescues the value of liberalism's sympathetic and socially engaged intent, even as he criticizes modern liberalism's inability to work transnationally.  

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简介：Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood Marshall, we would be deprived of political break throught that affirm and strengthen our democracy.

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