Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Fight Media Hegemony with a Trickster's Critique: Ishmael Reed's Faction about O.J. and Media Lynching

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[by Yuqing Lin] Editor's Note: The Project HBW Blog mostly traffics in shorter pieces, but from time to time we like to present our...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Jesmyn Ward and the National Book Awards

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[By Goyland Williams] In 2011, the National Book Foundation awarded book awards in poetry and fiction to Nikky Finney and Jesmyn Ward, re...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

A Lament for Ralph Ellison

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[By Jerry Ward] HBW Board Member Prof. Jerry Ward responds to questions posed on the HBW Blog and Facebook Accounts QUESTION:     ...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Reading Gayl Jones Corregidora: The Body Text

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[By Goyland Williams] The Corregidora women are haunted. The trauma is evident. Entrenched in a narrative marred by the legacy of slaver...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

A Lesson Before Dying: Notes for Human Liberation

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[By Goyland Williams] Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying has been compared to the works of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and even ...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

An Ethic of Quiet: Beyond the Black Public Self

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[By Goyland Williams] It is 1968. Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Peter Norman stand poised during the Olympic medal ceremony in Mexico...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

A Black Humanist Theology: Reading Toni Morrison

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[By Goyland Williams] My research interest in philosophy and literature- more specifically, Existentialism, has continuously led me t...
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