Literary Influence and African-American Writers (eBook, PDF)

Collected Essays
Redaktion: Mishkin, Tracy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at theories and realities of literary influence that especially affect African-American writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317946328
• Artikelnr.: 44474381

Autorenporträt

Tracy Mishkin

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Theorizing Literary Influence and African-American Writers, Tracy
Mishkin; Part 1 The Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2 Strategies of Black
Characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel,
Richard Yarborough; Chapter 3 Break Dancing in the Drawing Room: Mark Twain
and African-American Voices, Shelley Fisher Fishkin; Chapter 4 A Trick of
Mediation: Charles Chesnutt's Conflicted Literary Relationship with Albion
Tourgée, Peter Caccavari; Part 2 African-American and Irish Literature;
Chapter 5 "About Us, For Us, Near Us": The Irish and Harlem Renaissances,
Brian Gallagher; Chapter 6 Afro-Celtic Connections: From Frederick Douglass
to The Commitments, George Bornstein; Chapter 7 "How Black Sees Green and
Red": African-American and Irish Interaction in the Early Twentieth
Century, Tracy Mishkin; Part 3 Early to Mid-Twentieth Century; Chapter 8
Irony without Condescension: Sterling A. Brown's Nod to Robert Frost, Mark
Jeffreys; Chapter 9 Carlos Bulosan's literary Debt to Richard Wright, Helen
Jaskoski; Chapter 10 Theoretical Dimensions of Invisible Man, Pierre A.
Walker; Part 4 Contemporary; Chapter 11 Swing to the White, Back to the
Black: Writing and "Sourcery" in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, Richard
Hardack; Chapter 12 "Kin and Kin": The Poetry of Lucille Clifton, Alicia
Ostriker; Chapter 13 Shakespeare's Naylor, Naylor's Shakespeare:
Shakespearean Allusion as Appropriation in Gloria Naylor's Quartet, Peter
Erickson; Chapter 14 On Stepping into Footprints Which Feel Like Your Own:
Literacy, Empowerment, and the African-American Literary Tradition, Reggie
Young;