Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christel N. Temple, Molefi Kete Asante.
• Authors: Temple, Christel N
• Other Names: Asante, Molefi Kete writer of supplementary textual content.
• Contents: 2. Twentieth Century Black Lives Mattered: Male Mortality in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Souls of Black Folk and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Living Is Easy ; 3. “Can’t the Race Stand a Joke”: Humor and Pan-African Folk Negotiation in <span style="font-style:italic;">Banjo ; 4. Africana Literary Methods and the Bibliographic Shift in <span style="font-style:italic;">Iola Leroy and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Street ; 5. Autobiography and Documentary Forms of <span style="font-style:italic;"> Here I Stand as Black Cultural Mythology ; 6. <span style="font-style:italic;">A Raisin in the Sun and the Tradition of Literary Pan-Africanism ; 7. <span style="font-style:italic;">Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Demographic Literary Standard ; 8. <span style="font-style:italic;">The Parable of the Sower ’s <span style="font-style:italic;"> Earthseed as Black Liberation Theology ; 9. Self-Eulogy as Prophetic Afro-Futurism in Narratives of John Henrik Clarke and Malcolm X ; 10. Maat and the Psychology of Justice in the Morrisonesque Community of <span style="font-style:italic;">Perfect Peace ; 11. Beyoncé? No. Lauryn Hill? Yes: Interludes of Womanist Hip Hop and the Traditional Activist Genre ; 12. Broadway as <span style="font-style:italic;">Text : Africana History on Stage in <span style="font-style:italic;">Hamilton and <span style="font-style:italic;">Aida ; 13. Image and Verse, Music and Media: Diasporic Performance of Cultural Memory ; Conclusion: An Atmosphere of Freedom
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (244 pages), (2 illustrations)
• Subjects: History: African American; Social Science: Gender Studies; Literary Criticism: American / African American; Literary Collections: American / African American
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498545099; 1498545092
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.