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Black Cultural Mythology

Author : Christel N. Temple
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
ISBN 13 : 1438477872
Pages : 372 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (477 downloads)

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Download Black Cultural Mythology PDF Format Full Free by Christel N. Temple and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies. Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of “mythology” from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively surveys more than two hundred years of figures, moments, ideas, and canonical works by such visionaries as Maria Stewart, Richard Wright, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition. In so doing, she at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana cultural memory studies, while also staging a much broader intervention by challenging scholars across disciplines—from literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, and beyond—to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of the inheritance of survival. “This book not only offers a new and exciting theoretical concept, it also applies that concept to texts in unique and different ways. With this theoretical lens, we can ‘read’ and ‘see’ texts, memories, and ideas in new ways. The author examines an almost dizzying array of cultural and historical moments, scholars, artists, and activists and provides new lenses through which to read them as well. This is a brilliant and much-needed addition to the academic and cultural conversation.” — Georgene Bess Montgomery, author of The Spirit and the Word: A Theory of Spirituality in Africana Literary Criticism

Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

Author : Christel N. Temple
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-11-22
ISBN 13 : 1498545092
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (545 downloads)

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Download Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise PDF Format Full Free by Christel N. Temple and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framing the concept of transcendence, this study covers over a dozen traditional African American works in an original and thought-provoking analysis that places canonical approaches in enlightened discourse with Africana studies reader-response priorities.

(Re)storying Yoruba Cultural Myth to Unify the Double Consciousness of African-American Women in the U.S.

Author : Kidogo Kennedy
Publisher :
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 48 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

Author : T. Walters
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2007-10-29
ISBN 13 : 0230608876
Pages : 197 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (68 downloads)

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Download African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition PDF Format Full Free by T. Walters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artistic and political agency. The study demonstrates that women rework myth to represent mythical stories from the Black female perspective and to counteract denigrating contemporary cultural and social myths that disempower and devalue Black womanhood. Through their adaptations of classical myths about motherhood, Wheatley, Ray, Brooks, Morrison, and Dove uncover the shared experiences of mythic mothers and their contemporary African American counterparts thus offering a unique Black feminist perspective to classicism. The women also use myth as a liberating space where they can 'speak the unspeakable' and empower their subjects as well as themselves.

Sun Ra’s "Astro Black Mythology". Narrating the Self

Author : Anika Meier
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-10-22
ISBN 13 : 3656820619
Pages : 36 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (82 downloads)

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Download Sun Ra’s "Astro Black Mythology". Narrating the Self PDF Format Full Free by Anika Meier and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam (Institut für Künste und Medien), language: English, abstract: As a ground-breaking pioneer of African-American experimental jazz, bandleader, composer and extraordinary visionary of his time, Sun Ra not only challenged contemporary musical theory, but also created a multi-layered and equally perplexing alternative universe whose mythology and intergalactic narrative navigated between ancient Egypt and outer space. Declaring himself “a brother from another planet” (essay title of John Corbett, 1994) namely from Saturn, not from planet Earth, Sun Ra cheerfully embraced the impossible – announcing in the 1960s that it attracted him because “everything possible has been done and the world did not change” (both cited in Lock 1999, 3) – and spent the rest of his life travelling the space ways, “from planet to planet” not only promoting but enacting a vision of a future utopia: “The impossible is the watchword of the greater space age. The space age cannot be avoided and the space music is the key to understand the meaning of the impossible and every other enigma” (cited in Lock 1999, 26).

Black Christian Nationalism

Author : Albert B. Cleage
Publisher : Luxor Pub of the Pan-African
Release Date : 1987
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 362 pages
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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

Author : Tracey L. Walters
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2007-10-15
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 216 pages
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Download African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition PDF Format Full Free by Tracey L. Walters and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature.

Literary Spaces

Author : Christel N. Temple
Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 660 pages
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Download Literary Spaces PDF Format Full Free by Christel N. Temple and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical anthology explores the global literature of the African world as a unit whose chartable African heritage is coupled with the diversities and adaptations of post-enslavement and post-colonial experiences. The text has a seminal introduction that defines comparative black literature by examining how mainstream studies have marginalized literatures of Africa and the diaspora by not grouping them as a unit that reflects the historical continuum of the global African literary endeavor. The volume excerpts literature from vast representatives of the African world and introduces critical foundations that lead students to reflect on commonalities and divergences of global African literatures, as well as the more practical exercises of writing and analysis.

Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory

Author : James L. Conyers, Jr.
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release Date : 2022-01-11
ISBN 13 : 1785277200
Pages : 270 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (277 downloads)

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Download Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory PDF Format Full Free by James L. Conyers, Jr. and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali’s identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline’s subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali’s influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.

Interculture

Author : Sy Myron Kahn
Publisher :
Release Date : 1975
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 310 pages
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Perspectives of Black Popular Culture

Author : Harry B. Shaw
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Download Perspectives of Black Popular Culture PDF Format Full Free by Harry B. Shaw and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While blacks have made perhaps their most obvious and substantial contributions to Western popular culture through music and dance, they have developed a rich popular culture in a number of other areas, including the visual arts, mass media, health practices, recreation, and literature. Glimpsed through any medium, black popular culture is the DNA that runs throughout the various kinds of black—and American—artistic achievement and shared experience, helping to identify, explain, and retain Africanisms and the essential blackness that emanate from the everyday lives of black people.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

Author : Colin A. Palmer
Publisher : MacMillan Reference Library
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 13 : 9780028658179
Pages : 490 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (28 downloads)

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Afrocentric Mythology and Cultural Retentions in the African-American Novel

Author : Nicola Elizabeth Leedham
Publisher :
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 296 pages
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Fierce Angels

Author : Sheri Parks
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2013-04-01
ISBN 13 : 1613745079
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (745 downloads)

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Download Fierce Angels PDF Format Full Free by Sheri Parks and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The &“Strong Black Woman&” has been a part of mainstream culture for centuries, as a myth, a goddess, a positive role model, a stereotype, and as a burden. In Fierce Angels, Sheri Parks explores the concept of the Strong Black Woman, its influence on people of all races, and the ways in which black women respond to and are affected by this image. Originating in the ancient Sacred Dark Feminine as a nurturing and fierce goddess, the Strong Black Woman can be found in myths from every continent. Slaves and slave owners alike brought the legend to America, where the spiritual icon evolved into the secular Strong Black Woman, with examples ranging from the slave Mammy to the poet Maya Angelou. She continues to appear in popular culture in television and movies, such as Law and Order and The Help, and as an inspirational symbol associated with the dispossessed in political movements, in particular from Africa. The book presents the stories of historical and living black women who embody the role and puts the icon in its historical and evolutionary context, presenting a balanced account of its negative and positive impact on black culture. This new paperback edition has been revised from the hardcover edition to include two new chapters that expand on the transformative Dark Feminine in alchemy and Western literature and a chapter on the political uses and further potential of the Sacred Dark Feminine in social justice movements in the United States and abroad.

Ulysses in Black

Author : Patrice D. Rankine
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2008-12-30
ISBN 13 : 0299220036
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (22 downloads)

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Download Ulysses in Black PDF Format Full Free by Patrice D. Rankine and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Contemporary African American Fiction

Author : Dana A. Williams
Publisher :
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 274 pages
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Download Contemporary African American Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Dana A. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays, edited by Dana A. Williams, eight contributors examine trends and ideas which characterize African American fiction since 1970. They investigate many of the key inquiries which inform discussions about the condition of contemporary African American fiction. The range of queries is wide and varied. How does African American fiction represent the changing times in America and the world? How are these changes reflected in narrative strategies or in narrative content? How do contemporary fictionists engage diasporic Africanisms, or how do they renegotiate Americanism? What is the impact of cultural production, gender, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity on this fiction? How does contemporary African American fiction reconstruct or rewrite earlier "classic" African American, American, or world literature? Authors under study include Ernest J. Gaines, Ishmael Reed, Edwidge Danticat, Octavia E. Butler, Olympia Vernon, Toni Morrison, and Reginald McKnight, among others. These essays remind us that the African American literary tradition is about survival and liberation. The tradition is similarly about probing, challenging, changing, and redirecting accepted ways of thinking to ensure the wellness and the freedom of its community cohorts. The essays identify new ways contemporary African American fiction continues the tradition's liberatory inclinations--they interrogate the ways in which antecedent texts and traditions influence contemporary texts to create new traditions.

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power

Author : Jared A. Ball
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-04-01
ISBN 13 : 3030423557
Pages : 111 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (423 downloads)

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Download The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power PDF Format Full Free by Jared A. Ball and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For generations Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," and this book argues that commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity. This book exposes the claim as both a marketing strategy and myth, while also showing how that myth functions simultaneously as a case study for propaganda and commercial media coverage of economics. In sum, while “buying power” is indeed an economic and marketing phrase applied to any number of racial, ethnic, religious, gender, age or group of consumers, it has a specific application to Black America.