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Author : Eric Walrond
Release : 1998
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Winds Can Wake Up the Dead by : Eric Walrond
Download or read book Winds Can Wake Up the Dead written by Eric Walrond. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.
Author : Bruce Jackson
Release : 1999
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wake Up Dead Man by : Bruce Jackson
Download or read book Wake Up Dead Man written by Bruce Jackson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.
Author : Kristian Van Haesendonck
Release : 2014-09-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 68X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Caribbeing by : Kristian Van Haesendonck
Download or read book Caribbeing written by Kristian Van Haesendonck. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From wide-ranging overviews of the entire region to close readings of specific works, this volume opens a fascinating window on the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean, covering texts in the multiplicity of languages used in the wider Caribbean: Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and the region’s many creoles. Authors and works discussed range from luminaries such as Derek Walcott to hitherto practically unknown works in Antillean creole languages. Underlying is the idea to foster the study of the Caribbean literary, artistic and visual text through a comparative lens, a firm proposal to think beyond the persisting linguistic barriers and scholarly divides in the field. As such, Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures brings a new approach to the Caribbean embracing the region’s linguistic multiplicity and complexity without eschewing the many theoretical challenges and obstacles such a scholarly endeavor entails. Because of its ample scope this book will appeal to scholars and students working on the Caribbean and Latin America, but also to those interested in the broader fields of postcolonial and cultural studies. “This book is much more than a book on the Caribbean: it underlines the global dimensions and relevance of Caribbean Studies in the twenty-first century. Following carefully the crossroads of literatures and cultures, it shows new routes allowing us to rethink our world(s) in a transarchipelagic mode. An eye-opener: accelerated globalization is unthinkable without the Caribbean.” (Ottmar Ette, University of Potsdam) “Rarely have the multiple flows and enduring traumas of Caribbean culture been explored from such a boldly wide-ranging and profoundly comparative set of perspectives. An indispensable work that sets a new standard for Caribbeanist scholarship.” (Maarten van Delden, Universtiy of California, Los Angeles)
Author : Philip Bader
Release : 2014-05-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis African-American Writers by : Philip Bader
Download or read book African-American Writers written by Philip Bader. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American authors have consistently explored the political dimensions of literature and its ability to affect social change. African-American literature has also provided an essential framework for shaping cultural identity and solidarity. From the early slave narratives to the folklore and dialect verse of the Harlem Renaissance to the modern novels of today
Author : Robert Bone
Release : 2011
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 432/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Muse in Bronzeville by : Robert Bone
Download or read book The Muse in Bronzeville written by Robert Bone. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history from the early 1930s to the cold war, and the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakenting that occurred on Chicago's South Side -- from cover.
