Ever since the eighteenth century, this literature has consistently incorporated forms ranging from orature, the written word, and song, to dance, jazz, and film, effectively demonstrating its versatility as a medium of African American cultural expression. The literature has constantly documented the struggles of African Americans with race and (anti-black) racism, African heritage and Euro-American influence, slavery and freedom, constitutional enfranchisement and educational progress, political agency and social assimilation, as well as the specters of history and modernity. Finally, African Americans have also regularly wrestled with the critical and commercial expectations that guided, compromised, or contradicted their own agendas as creative writers or as proclaimed agents of social change. On the other hand, the essays in this collection also interrogate why these formal, thematic, and commercial patterns have come to determine what we consider to be the best or most emblematic texts of African American literary history.
From: Companion to African American Literature, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, Wiley, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bayloru/detail.action?docID=487737.
The resources listed here focus specifically on the work of African Americans in all literary forms. I have not included the standard databases for scholarly literature, the MLA International Bibliography or ABELL, since these cover all aspects of literature.
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on African-American culture, history, and society. Very useful for introductions to the scholarship of a field and key critical works.
Digital edition of the four original editions of Clotel, the first African American novel, published when its author was still legally a slave.
The resources listed here focus specifically on the work of African Americans in all literary forms. I have not included the standard databases for scholarly literature, the MLA International Bibliography or ABELL, since these cover all aspects of literature.
Full-text access to collections of newspapers, including African-American Newspapers, women’s magazines, abolitionist magazines, and publications covering the Civil War and American County Histories.
Provides indexing and full-text access to 8 major newspapers published by and for African Americans between 1827 to 1902.
Articles include coverage of major issues, biographies of individuals, poetry, prose, and cultural concerns for the African American community. Three of the 8 titles were published in New York (including Frederick Douglass' 3 newspapers and The Colored American and Freedom's Journal), one from western Canada (Provincial Freedom), one from D.C. (The National Era), and the newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the U.S. (The Christian Recorder) from Philadelphia, PA. Vendor provides one interface for all its products, so choose as source "African American Newspapers" to search only these titles.
Provides the full-text of nine major African American newspapers - Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.
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