The African American Male, Writing, and Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African American Male, Writing, and Difference write by W. Lawrence Hogue. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The African American Male, Writing, and Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging analysis, W. Lawrence Hogue argues that African American life and history is more diverse than even African American critics generally acknowledge. Focusing on literary representations of African American males in particular, Hogue examines works by James Weldon Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Charles Wright, Nathan Heard, Clarence Major, James Earl Hardy, and Don Belton to see how they portray middle-class, Christian, subaltern, voodoo, urban, jazz/blues, postmodern, and gay African American cultures. Hogue shows that this polycentric perspective can move beyond a "racial uplift" approach to African American literature and history and help paint a clearer picture of the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man write by James Weldon Johnson. This book was released on 2021-01-01. The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Amazing Dreams
Amazing Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazing Dreams write by Derrick L. Hall. This book was released on 2019-08-07. Amazing Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “AMAZING DREAMS—A Writing Experience of a Young African-American Male” is a book about the changing life of a guy named Warren and several of his friends who go through life experiencing the challenges of moving from high school into adulthood as they enter into the college world, become students at a HBCU (Historical Black College and University), finding and dating women, seeking love, and having visions. The author throws you into the scene of how a voyage of true love transitions, the hardships of life and love through the eyes of an African American male, how the real world will make you or break you and finally making major life decisions. Can a young man find Love and attempt to be a Playa too? Warren tries to play the field on the local college campus with so many women and still find love with that special lady. Does he experience pain and lost or change and love? He is all set to be the best college student that he can be, but the love for the ladies keeps him going into all kinds of directions as the playa. With Annette, Diamond, Dionne, Maria, MarKetta, Tonya, Nailah, and Latoya (Lady Red) in and out of Warren’s life; one of these ladies finally captures his mind and heart as he finds the love he’s been seeking. Enter Warren’s world and his experiences on the college campus of NSU—Norfolk State University as he tries to balance his studies and finding Love. This book will keep you wanting to read more and more while capturing your full attention.
The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction write by Darryl Dickson-Carr. This book was released on 2005-10-14. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism.
We Want a Different Story
We Want a Different Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Want a Different Story write by Terence Gray. This book was released on 2019-02-12. We Want a Different Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is for black men and those who desire to love and know them better. "We Want A Different Story" is about identity formation amongst African American men and how historical, political and theological narratives shape identity. Stories influence both entire cultures and individuals.The good news is that the story that you inherit does not have to be the story that you accept and pass along to others. Since 1619, we have all been told a distorted story about black men in America. Yet many have chosen to take back the pen and write a better story.The value of a black man's life has become a mainstream conversation in the 21st century. We Want A Different Story engages this critical conversation with hopes of cultivating healing and empathy in our society. The stories, facts and solutions will assist readers from all backgrounds in deconstructing a false narrative of black inferiority. Terence June Gray, M.Div is a Pastor, Writer and Hip Hop Artist from Memphis, TN. He has served the youth of inner city Memphis and Dallas as an artist, pastor, case manager and mentor.
