African-American Fiction

Nov 16, 2009

Edwidge Danticat

By: Margaret Auguste

Edwidge Danticat is a master storyteller who allows her readers to experience the Hatian culture, history and emotions through her insightful and compelling writing. more...

Nov 15, 2009

The Beloved Waters

By: Kathy Hahn

African-American author Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is quite literally awash in its water-related themes. more...

Nov 15, 2009

The Beloved Trees

By: Kathy Hahn

Trees sink thematic roots and weave intertwined branch-motifs throughout African-American author Toni Morrison's slavery-era novel, Beloved. more...

Nov 3, 2009

Magic Watery Moment in Beloved

By: Kathy Hahn

Although desire for freedom is the overriding theme, Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is quite literally awash in its water-related motifs. more...

Nov 3, 2009

The Bodwins' At Yo Service

By: Kathy Hahn

The Bodwin house . . . the loving, comfortable mid-1800's Ohio home of an upstanding abolitionist Quaker man and his sister-and a most despicable objet d'art. more...

Nov 2, 2009

Morrison Similar Characters Different

By: Kathy Hahn

Toni Morrison's Beloved is well-stocked with vivid personalities and levels of individual insight/intelligence that adds a heightened richness to an already powerful stor more...

Oct 24, 2009

Casualties & Warriors; Celie and Dana

By: Kathy Hahn

Oppressed and victimized, African-American female protagonists in Octavia Butler's Kindred (Dana) and Alice Walker's The Color Purple (Celie) exemplify the word casualty. more...

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