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Journal articles on the topic "African american novelists – biography"

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Karl, Frederick R. "Contemporary Biographers of Nineteenth-Century Novelists." Victorian Literature and Culture 25, no. 1 (1997): 191–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300004708.

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A sudden scholarly interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has resulted in a good many publications — his collected letters, a brief life by Ian Bell, a more authoritative life by Frank McLynn, and a very full biography of Fanny Stevenson, the American woman who lived with the writer for the last twenty years of his life. Besides informing us about the Stevensons, this outpouring says a good deal about where biography is now, in the mid-1990s.
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Andrews, Larry R., and Hazel V. Carby. "Reconstructing Womanhood: Early African-American Women Novelists." Contemporary Literature 32, no. 3 (1991): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208567.

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Lakshmi, K. Srividya. "Alice Walker’s Perspective of Empowerment of Black Women as Revealed in her Novel “The Third Life of Grange Copeland”." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 5 (May 28, 2020): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i5.10581.

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Alice Walker is a Black American novelist, essayist, short story writer, poetic, critic, biographer, editor and Pulitzer Prize laureate. Alice Walker captures the experience of Black women in her works as a series of movements from women who are victimized by the society to women who have taken control of their lives consciously. She has explored the lives of Black women in depth even questions their fate. She has courage to see through the seeds of time and declares that in future black women would no longer live in suspension. “The Third Life of Grange Copeland” (1970) was the first novel of Alice Walker. The focus is on Black women characters in The Third Life who empower themselves through education and economic independence. This novel introduces the domination of powerless women by equally powerless men. The novel challenges African Americans to take a scrutinizing look at them. Mary Margaret Richards observes that “The Oldest generation represented by Grange finds itself trapped in a share cropper system… a form of slavery (African –American Writers, p.744). The novel introduces many of her prevalent themes, particularly the domination of powerless women by equally powerless men.
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Kitch, Sally L., and Missy Dehn Kubitschek. "Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 11, no. 1 (1992): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463788.

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Barak, Julie, and Emmanuel S. Nelson. "Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 54, no. 2 (2000): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1348143.

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Bruno, Maria, and Missy Dehn Kubitschek. "Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History." American Literature 64, no. 1 (March 1992): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927524.

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Fultz, Lucille P., and Missy Dehn Kubitschek. "Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History." Journal of Southern History 58, no. 4 (November 1992): 759. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2210848.

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Sale, Maggie, and Missy Dehn Kubitschek. "Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History." Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (March 1992): 1471. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079429.

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Scott, Joyce H. "Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History." Studies in American Fiction 22, no. 2 (1994): 255–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1994.0014.

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Novkinić, Sandra. "CONTINUITY OF AFROCENTRIC TROPES ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY FORMATION IN THE NOVELS BY PAULE MARSHALL AND GLORIA NAYLOR." Folia linguistica et litteraria X, no. 32 (2020): 27–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.32.2020.2.

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African American literature that is fundamentally a socially symbolic linguistic construct, seeks different ways to expand and continue the use of Afrocentric vernacular tropes of personal and collective identity formation. The five residual oral forms – oratory (including everyday speech acts), myth/ritual performance, legend, tale, and song – as well as satire, irony, and paradox are used by contemporary African American novelists. This paper points to how the legendary black ancestors and elder members of the community, the gifted and often rebellious orator, musician, artist, the spiritual leader, and the messianic figure are equally enduring symbols and tropes. The aim of this work is to show the way in which the contemporary African American novelists Paule Marshall and Gloria Naylor use these (above mentioned) characters and symbols to reconstruct their long struggle as individuals and as community against anti-black racism. Therefore, the focus of this paper is on continuity of Afrocentric tropes in African American personal/collective and female/male identity formation as represented in selected novels by Paule Marshall and Gloria Naylor.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African american novelists – biography"

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Spriggs, Bianca L. "Women of the Apocalypse: Afrospeculative Feminist Novelists." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/56.

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“Women of the Apocalypse: Feminist Afrospeculative Writers,” seeks to address the problematic ‘Exodus narrative,’ a convention that has helped shape Black American liberation politics dating back to the writings of Phyllis Wheatley. Novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, and Alice Walker undermine and complicate this narrative by challenging the trope of a single charismatic male leader who leads an entire race to a utopic promised land. For these writers, the Exodus narrative is unsustainable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because there is no room for women to operate outside of the role of supportive wives. The mode of speculative fiction is well suited to crafting counter-narratives to Exodus mythology because of its ability to place marginalized voices in the center from the stance of ‘What next?’ My project is a hybrid in that I combine critical theory with original poems. The prose section of each chapter contextualizes a novel and its author with regard to Exodus mythology. However, because novels can only reveal so much about character development, I identify spaces to engage and elaborate upon the conversation incited by these authors’ feminist protagonists. In the tradition of Black American poets such as, Ai, Patricia Smith, Rita Dove, and Tyehimba Jess, in my own personal creative work, I regularly engage historical figures through recovering the narratives of underrepresented voices. To write in persona or limited omniscient, spotlighting an event where the reader possesses incomplete information surrounding a character’s experience, the result becomes a kind of call-and-response interaction with these novels.
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Best, Felton O. "Crossing the color line : a biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906 /." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1249488861.

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Ivey, Adriane Louise. "Rewriting Christianity : African American women writers and the Bible /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9987234.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-216). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Joens, David A. "John W. E. Thomas : a political biography of Illinois' first African American state legislator /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791777391&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.
"Department of History." Keywords: Thomas, John W. E., Illinois, State legislators, African-Americans. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364). Also available online.
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Joens, David Arthur. "John W. E. Thomas: A Political Biography of Illinois' First African American State Legislator." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/293.

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John W. E. Thomas (1847-1899) was elected as Illinois' first African American state legislator in 1877 and served three terms in the Illinois General Assembly. This dissertation serves as the first full length biography of Thomas and seeks to discuss African American politics and society in post Civil War Chicago.
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Barnaby, Nicole. "The Biography of an Institution: The Cultural Formation of Mass Incarceration." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459887258.

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Kenck-Crispin, Douglas Jon. "Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3412.

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In 1993, Charles Moose became Portland, Oregon's first black police chief. A nationally recognized student of the developing theories of community policing, Chief Moose's promotion was also hoped to help strengthen the diversity of the Portland Police Bureau. Ultimately, Portlanders were unable to look past Moose's public outbursts and demeanor and recognize his accomplishments. As a city, they missed an opportunity. This thesis uses transcripts of speeches and policy papers to present some political history to the reader, but also letters to the mayor's office, letters to the editor and the like to consider the social history of 1990's Portland. Some specific touchpoints of Moose's administration are considered, including when he and his wife Sandy moved to the King Neighborhood, the Daniel Binns birthday party and the resulting march on Moose's home, his outburst at the City Council, and other examples of his legendary anger. Moose's role in gentrification, and the policies he created for the Portland Police Bureau to lead that charge will not be ignored. All the while, the context of Oregon's racist heritage is forefront in this paper. By 1999, Charles Moose had left the bureau and accepted a job in Maryland. He was selected for many of the accomplishments that the Portland public had criticized him for. Ultimately, this study will show that Portland missed an opportunity to discuss how they wanted to be policed, and what philosophies they wanted their enforcers to personify.
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Gaines, Adam W. "Work of Art : the life and music of Art Farmer." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1317924.

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Baldwin, Garth Adrian. "Rev James Warren "Jim" Jones: a psychobiographical study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1015635.

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The purpose of a psychobiography is to describe an individual‟s life while using a psychological theory. James Warren “Jim” Jones was selected through purposive sampling because of his instrumental role in organising the largest mass suicide in recorded USA history. Kernberg‟s (1979; 1985; 2004) object relations theory was used to illuminate his life and personality dynamics, a theory focused on describing the borderline personality organisation. The study employed a qualitative single case study design, and data was analysed according to the principals set out by Yin (1994) as well as Miles and Huberman (1994). Results indicated that Kernberg‟s (1979; 1985; 2004) theory was suitable in shedding light on the life of this infamous historical figure, which resulted in an increased understanding of the application of this psychological theory. Lastly, it contributed towards increasing the limited number of psychobiographical studies conducted in South Africa.
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Knight, Dawn K. "A biography of George Taliaferro and his impact on the integration of professional football." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1272767.

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George Taliaferro was a trailblazer. He was the first black quarterback in professional football, the first black quarterback in the National Football League (NFL), and the first black man to be drafted by an NFL team.Taliaferro's story of perseverance revealed the slow and difficult process of integration in high school, at Indiana University, and in his professional football career. The obstacles he faced and the lessons he learned were representative of issues related to the integration of the NFL.A combination of personal narrative and historical investigation was used in this creative project. In addition to Taliaferro's first-hand accounts, depth and perspective were added through interviews and reportage.The biography that resulted, the story of Taliaferro's resolve, became a vehicle for telling a larger story, the integration of the NFL.
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Books on the topic "African american novelists – biography"

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Celebrated African-American novelists. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2013.

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Li, Stephanie. Toni Morrison: A biography. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood Press, 2009.

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Burke, Bob. Ralph Ellison: A biography. Oklahoma City, Okla: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2003.

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Terry McMillan: The unauthorized biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Toni Morrison: A biography. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood Press, 2010.

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Toni Morrison: A biography of a nobel prize-winning writer. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2012.

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Hutchinson, George. In search of Nella Larsen: A biography of the color line. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Richard, Andersen. Toni Morrison. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2005.

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1954-, Nelson Emmanuel S., ed. Contemporary African American novelists: A bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.

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Zora Neale Hurston: A literary biography. London: Camden Press, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "African american novelists – biography"

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Green, Tara T. "Black Biography, Past and Present." In A History of African American Autobiography, 292–309. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108890946.018.

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Rodríguez, Barbara. "“Everybody’s Zora”: Visions, Setting, and Voice in Dust Tracks on a Road." In Autobiographical Inscriptions, 21–49. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195123418.003.0002.

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Abstract Zora Neale Hurston begins her solicited autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, by describing the founding of her hometown, Eatonville, Florida. Interestingly, critical examinations of the autobiography also often im plicitly ground themselves-at least in part-in considerations of the town; Robert Hemenway, Hurston’s biographer, and other critics of the life story, imply that the author must explain her journey from rural Eatonville to the Harlem Renaissance and her unprecedented success for an African American woman as both an anthropologist and novelist.
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"Bothersome Biography: Emmett Jay Scott." In Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography, 213–26. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315706085-26.

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Thompson, James Cheeney. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 363–72. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-017.

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Allen, William Gustavus. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 321–40. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-014.

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Browne, Dinah Hope. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 373–416. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-018.

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Brown, Benjamin William. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 523–46. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-024.

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Wells-Barnett, Ida B. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 461–96. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-022.

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Martin, John Sella. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 417–28. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-019.

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Hart, John. "Biography and Further Reading." In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland, 153–62. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474457989-010.

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