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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: U-Z

... Night Before Thirty ( Butler ) , 226 Night Comes Softly : Anthology of Black Female Voices ( Giovanni ) , 1048 Night Comes Walking ( Popel ) , 1313 " Night , Death , Mississippi " ( Hayden ) , 743 Night in Tunisia ( Taylor ) , 1570 ...

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

... the essays are laced with humor. Gay's best known and most widely read book to date is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017), which describes her own struggle with overcon- sumption and addresses issues of body- image, fear, and self ...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: O-T

... Imaro trilogy - Imaro ( 1981 ) , The Quest for Cush ( 1984 ) , and The Trail of Bohu ( 1985 ) —is set in Africa and focuses on a Black warrior named Imaro . While these four writers differ in their literary styles and foci , their works ...

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

... Butler's works also tend to incorporate issues involving prejudice and its ... Octavia Butler , Bloodchild and Other Stories ( New York : Four Walls Eight ... Octavia Butler , Kindred ( Boston : Beacon Press , 1988 ) , ix – xxii ...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: D-H

... erotica indicate a shift in American culture with regard to what is considered to be taboo . Undoubtedly one precursor to the shift , if not one of its direct causes , was the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s . Erotica ...

Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History

... Poitier's character is slapped by an older white racist man . Poitier slaps ... Sidney Poitier : Man , Actor , Icon . Chapel Hill : University of North ... The Measure of a Man : A Spiritual Autobiography . New York : HarperCollins ...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: I-N

... Jean Toomer's Cane . Moreover , although Keene's novel is stylistically and tonally very different from Harry ... online publications . He has also pro- duced segments for New York radio . He has gained a reputation as a con- troversial ...

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