author: cheryl a wall

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook

... discourse ( which manifests itself as a direct speech rendered in what Hurston called dialect ) . Hurston's ... free indirect discourse . It was Hurston who introduced free indirect discourse into Afro - American narration . It ...

On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay

... (magazine), 149 “Negro Speaks of Rivers, The” (Hughes), 92, 102 “Negro ... 124–25 No Name in the Street (Baldwin), 119, 122–23, 141–47, 245n45 “Notes ... Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the ...

The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

... Home to Harlem, Banjo lives by his wits; he fortifies himself with wine and with the music he continually makes. The novel also reintroduces Ray, the Haitian intellectual, from Home to Harlem, who joins Banjo in this new adventure. The ...

The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

In this Very Short Introduction, Cheryl A. Wall captures the Harlem Renaissance's zeitgeist by identifying issues and strategies that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike.

Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition

... The Color Purple is Walker's love letter to her literary ancestor , and Walker has confirmed that sup- position . The Color Purple surely extends the line of its precursor text in its themes , especially concerning gender politics ; in ...

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