African-American Fiction
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Kindred Shades of Gray; Octavia Butler's Kindred
By: Kathy Hahn
African-American sci-fi author Octavia Butler's Kindred relates one Black woman's journey toward discovering/accepting her familial racial diversity. more...
Lesbian Love in The Color Purple
By: Kathy Hahn
In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the main character, Celie, is heavily influenced by Shug Avery, a bisexual woman slightly older chronologically but eons more worldly. more...
Suffering in Modern African-American Literature
By: Megan B. Wyatt
The theme of suffering is evident throughout African-American literature, and modern and postmodern themes of suffering reveal how these characters deal with suffering. more...
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