scholarly journals (Im)Perfect memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łapińska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
American Author ◽  
Mourning Process

The article entitled “(Im)Perfect Memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn” explores the fallibility of memory as presented in Another Brooklyn, a novel by an African American author Jacqueline Woodson. The text presents the idea that personal memories change due to the passage of time along with the new experiences of an individual, and relates it to the studied novel. Special attention is given to different dimensions of grief and loss presented in the analyzed story. The mourning after the loss of loved ones is explored through the use of concepts such as Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief, the selective amnesia and the idea of continuing bonds. The process of growing up is also briefly considered as a mourning process over losing the innocence and safety provided by childhood. Further, the article presents the hardships of growing up without a mother in an unsafe neighbourhood, the loss of vital friendships and the search of a better life - all introduced through the recollections which occurred after a significant passage of time and the accumulation of experiences which lend themselves to the change of the mindset of the main character.

“Times Change”: Frank J. Webb Addresses Robert Morris on the Promise of Reconstruction

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Amber D. Moulton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Robert Morris ◽  
American Author

In 1869, African American author Frank J. Webb returned to Washington, D.C., to become a “Carpetbagger” in the Reconstruction South. In a letter to black Bostonian Robert Morris, Webb illustrated the richness of antebellum African American reform networks and portrayed one man’s boundless optimism for race relations in postbellum America.

scholarly journals Theorizing Black Power Movement in African American Literature: An Analysis of Morrison's Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Fayaz Ahmad Kumar ◽  
Colette Morrow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black Power ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Black Aesthetics ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Author

This paper analyzes the influence of the Black Power movement on the AfricanAmerican literary productions; especially in the fictional works of Toni Morrison. As an African-American author, Toni Morrison presents the idea of 'Africanness' in her novels. Morrison's fiction comments on the fluid bond amongst the African-American community, the Black Power and Black Aesthetics. The works of Morrison focus on various critical points in the history of African-Americans, her fiction recalls not only the memory of Africa but also contemplates the contemporary issues. Morrison situates the power politics within the framework of literature by presenting the history of the African-American cultures.

“A Book One Can with Complete Confidence Call Important”: Albert Erskine, Ralph Ellison, and the Publishing of Invisible Man

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
DANIEL ROBERT KING
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
American Author ◽  
The University

In this article I examine the editing and publishing of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by Albert Erskine. Over the course of the piece, I deploy letters, drafts, and other material drawn from both Ellison's archive in the Library of Congress and Erskine's own archive at the University of Virginia to unpack how Erskine, as a white editor at a powerful international publishing house, conceived of his role in shepherding to market and marketing what he saw as a major literary work by an African American author.

scholarly journals Identity, difference and healing: Reading Beloved within the context of John Caputo’s theory of hermeneutics

Literator ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
B. Du Plooy ◽  
P. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Symbolic Representations ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Author

John Caputo’s interest in the human struggle towards healing/wholing is obvious in his contribution on the work of Foucault: “On not knowing who we are: Madness, hermeneutics, and the night of truth in Foucault” (Caputo, 1993:233-262). While basing his reading of madness as a form of human suffering on the work of Foucault, Caputo moves beyond Foucaultian theory – “in a direction that, while it was not taken by Foucault, is perhaps suggested by him” (Caputo, 1993:234) – by envisioning a hermeneutics of response and redress and a therapeutics of “healing gestures” (Caputo, 1993:234). In this article we investigate the applicability of Caputo’s theory of progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”, a work of historical fiction. (Morrison is an African-American author and Nobel laureate.) We do this investigation by reading the novel’s three major characters (Sethe, Beloved and Denver) as symbolic representations of Caputo’s three kinds of hermeneutics, of which the third, represented by the character Denver, is constitutive of a therapeutics of healing.

scholarly journals THE ARTISTIC WORLD OF MODERN CHILDREN'S PROSE

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-205
Author(s):  
A. Ashimbaeva ◽  
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Z. Tursynali ◽  
S. Sabigazina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The One

The article tells that the main character traits are laid in childhood. It is during this period of growing up that a worldview and ideas about morality are formed, one of the main sources of which, of course, is children's literature. It is for this reason that, over time, people began to understand the need for the existence of works especially for children. Modern children's prose is developing, transforming, no worse than the one that was before. The problems of the past are being replaced by more urgent and fresh ones. The works of the latest children's literature are a treasure trove of the most important diverse information that you need to be able to reveal, discern, and read between the lines. Thus, the latest literature pushes us ourselves to seek morality, hidden meaning, which leads to the development of various spheres of personality. Today children's literature begins to return to its main task - the ethical education of the younger generation. Writers talk about morality, morality, mutual understanding between parents and children.

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