African American feminist theories and literary criticism

2009 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Robert J. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Feminist Theories

scholarly journals The African-American Intellectual of the 1920s: Some Sociological Implications of the Harlem Renaissance

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Robert L. Perry ◽  
Melvin T. Peters
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
High Water ◽  
New Negro ◽  
Black Activism ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
African American Art ◽  
Cultural Brokers

This paper deals with some of the sociological implications of a major cultural high-water point in the African American experience, the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance. The paper concentrates on the cultural transformations brought about through the intellectual activity of political activists, a multi-genre group of artists, cultural brokers, and businesspersons. The driving-wheel thrust of this era was the reclamation and the invigoration of the traditions of the culture with an emphasis on both the, African and the American aspects, which significantly impacted American and international culture then and throughout the 20th century. This study examines the pre-1920s background, the forms of Black activism during the Renaissance, the modern content of the writers' work, and the enthusiasm of whites for the African American art forms of the era. This essay utilizes research from a multi-disciplinary body of sources, which includes sociology, cultural history, creative literature and literary criticism, autobiography, biography, and journalism.

Representative Women: Slavery, Citizenship, and Feminist Theory in Du Bois's “Damnation of Women”

Hypatia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Lawrie Balfour
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
The U.S

In this essay, I contend that feminist theories of citizenship in the U.S. context must go beyond simply acknowledging the importance of race and grapple explicitly with the legacies of slavery. To sketch this case, I draw upon W.E.B. Du Bois's “The Damnation of Women,” which explores the significance for all Americans of African American women's sexual, economic, and political lives under slavery and in its aftermath.

scholarly journals INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN ANGIE THOMAS’ THE HATE U GIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. ABU FANANI, M. Pd. ◽  
NISA RITMA YANTI, S. S.
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Black Panthers ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Data Source

Yanti, N. R. and Fanani, Abu (2020). Institutional Racism in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give. Keywords: racism, institutional racism, African American literary criticism.                           This article tries to analyze a novel written by Angie Thomas entitled The Hate U Give and focuses on the main character named Starr Carter. The purpose of this article is to know racism that occurs in the novel and the way Starr has to deal with it.             The method used in this study is qualitative research or library research, it means the data are concerned with texts, written words, phrases or symbols. Primary data source of this research is taken from the novel while secondary data sources are taken from articles, journals, websites, and books that relate with this analysis. The collected data are analyzed by applying institutional racism theory in African American literary criticism.               As the result of the analysis it is found that there are three parts of institutional racism portrayed in this novel, those are ignorance toward Black Panthers’ Ten-Point Program, the shooting in license checking, and physical punishment in police patrol.  

Comparative African American and Asian American Literary Studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia H. Lee
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Political Radicalism

Comparative African American and Asian American literary studies traces the diverse (if uneven) ways that African American and Asian American authors have explored the relationship between the two groups and delves into the histories and the politics behind these interracial representations. The literature ranges from the polemical to the fantastic, from the realist to the postmodern, and from the formally innovative to the generically conventional. While some may assume that the politics behind such representations are either coalitional or conflictual in nature, the literature is highly ecumenical, including narratives that engage in Orientalism and/or Negrophobia, Third World rhetoric, postcolonial critique, and political radicalism. African Americans have long been interested in Asia as a potential site for resistance to American racism and empire, while Asian American authors have looked to the experiences of black Americans to understand their own experiences of racism within the United States. Despite the fact that there is a long-established tradition of Afro-Asian literary representation, literary criticism has only taken up a sustained and in-depth study of this topic within the past two decades. Afro-Asian literary studies is part of a late-20th-century “comparative turn” within US-based race studies, which goes along with the increasing transnational/diasporic orientation of formerly nation- or area-based disciplines.

scholarly journals From Gospel to Gates: Modal Blending in African-American Musical Discourse before the Signifyin(g) Monkey

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Coady
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
African American Music ◽  
Musical Discourse ◽  
Musical Practices

Despite its origins in the literary realm, Henry Louis Gates The Signfiyin(g) Monkey: A Theory of African-American literary criticism has become a standard methodological text for the study of African-American music. Those who embrace the theory accept as the foundation of their argument an apparent link between African-American linguistic and musical realms. This short paper locates the origin of this type of modal blending in research into the rhetorical practices of Gospel services in the United States during the early 1970s. It posits that this body of work established a consensus in the field of Cultural Studies over the affinity of linguistic/musical practices in African-American culture and demonstrates that this understanding was used to justify the application of Gates theory to musical analysis in the 1990s. The ubiquity of Gates theory in the study of African-American music today is therefore shown to be the result of interdisciplinary collaboration rather than the legacy of any one particular individual.

scholarly journals “Looking ‘Foreword’ to Milton in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 562
Author(s):  
Reginald A. Wilburn
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
John Milton ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
American Studies ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Influence ◽  
Reading Experience

Prior to the 2014 republication of Toni Morrison’s, Paradise, the novelist had not published any commentary about the role of literary influence John Milton might have had on her fictional writings. In a foreword to the republication of her 1997 novel, Morrison offers her first published acknowledgement of Milton’s influence on any work in her canon. My essay contends this Miltonic revelation constitutes a groundbreaking event in literary criticism. I explore the critical significance of this revelation by explicating the foreword, Milton’s significance within it, and its implications for reading the 17th-century epic writer’s (in)visible influential presence throughout Paradise. Placing particular emphasis on the interpretive significance of Morrison’s womanist critique of Milton’s portrayal of Eve, my essay turns to a focus on the Convent women as interrogated replicas of the first mother presented in Paradise Lost. This analysis of the novel enlarges the grounds of contention in Milton and African American studies, providing a richer interpretive reading experience that has never been cited or examined in existing literary criticism prior to now.

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