African-American Literature

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: African-American folktales, American Society of African Culture, A Brighter Coming Day, Blood on the Forge, Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition, Fire!!, From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, Harlem Renaissance, Hip Hop High School, Homeboyz, Jabari Asim, John F. Callahan, Kimani Press, Mosaic literary magazine, Negro Academy, Niggerati, Renate Simson, Rough Crossings, The Conjure Woman (stories), The Man Who Was Almost a Man, The Mis-Education of the Negro, The Nigger Bible, The Street (novel), The Talented Tenth, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line, Uncle Tom's Children, Urban fiction. Excerpt: African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. African American literature reached early high points with slave narratives of the nineteenth century. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a time of flowering of literature and the arts. Writers of African-American literature have been recognized by the highest awards, including the Nobel Prize to Toni Morrison. Among the themes and issues explored in this literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American society, African-American culture, racism, slavery, and equality. African-American writing has tended to incorporate oral forms, such as spirituals, sermons, gospel music, blues, or rap. As African Americans' place in American society has changed over the centuries, so, has the focus of African-American literature. Before the American Civil War, the literature primarily consisted of...

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