African-American Fiction
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Runaway Quilt Character Back in The Lost Quilter
A Runaway Quilt character returns in Jennifer Chiaverini's recent book Lost Quilter. Each civil war era historical fiction adds to Joanne's link with Elm Creek Manor.
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Kim Mclarin:
The issues of race, class, feminism, motherhood and relationships come together in the novels written by this wonderful and thought-provoking new author.
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is a master storyteller who allows her readers to experience the Hatian culture, history and emotions through her insightful and compelling writing.
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The Beloved Waters
African-American author Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is quite literally awash in its water-related themes.
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The Beloved Trees
Trees sink thematic roots and weave intertwined branch-motifs throughout African-American author Toni Morrison's slavery-era novel, Beloved.
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Magic Watery Moment in Beloved
Although desire for freedom is the overriding theme, Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is quite literally awash in its water-related motifs.
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The Bodwins' At Yo Service
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.
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Morrison Similar Characters Different
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
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Casualties & Warriors; Celie and Dana
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.
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Kindred Shades of Gray; Octavia Butler's Kindred
African-American sci-fi author Octavia Butler's Kindred relates one Black woman's journey toward discovering/accepting her familial racial diversity.
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Lesbian Love in The Color Purple
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.
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Suffering in Modern African-American Literature
The theme of suffering is evident throughout African-American literature, and modern and postmodern themes of suffering reveal how these characters deal with suffering.
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Summary of Ellison's Short Story "Battle Royal"
Building off the segregation of blacks and whites in the mid-19th century, Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" explores what it means to be black and humble and still be.
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Book Review of Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
The 337 page book is an account of the Dead family, who they are, their problems, where they come from, and where they may go.
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Book Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston´s second novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is now her most famous one.
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Book Review of Love, by Toni Morrison
As Morrison herself says in her first paragraph, Love is a story about wicked females.
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Jadine's Journey in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
Tar Baby follows protagonist Jadine through her journey of self; Jadine discovers that she is not quite ready to explore the person she really is.
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Bestselling Author Alice Walker's Impact
Alice Walker gained acclaim after her book, The Color Purple, was published in 1982. Her talent is deep, moving, engaging and timeless.
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The Gilded Six-Bits
Written in 1933, Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits" is a story of a young married couple torn apart by the allure of wealth.
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Function of Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Toni Morrison explores how a community that functions like a family allows itself to cast out one of its most vulnerable members.
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Culture and Heritage in Walker's Everyday Use
Culture and heritage is the main focus of Alice Walker's Everyday Use. The significance of quilt-making & the bonds shared by the quiltmakers are based on tradition.
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Dee's Character in Everyday Use
Dee's character in Everyday Use by Walker is the antithesis to simplicity. Her seeming defiance to tradition makes Mother more appreciative of African-American culture.
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Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Alice Walker's Everyday Use presents an interesting comparison on how culture and heritage, represented by the quilt, is viewed particularly among the African-American.
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Symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston continually uses animals as symbols to show Janie's struggle against conforming to her Nanny's definition of a black woman.
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Complexity and Morality in The Known World
Throughout The Known World, Edward P. Jones allows the reader to see both the internal struggles, and the outward actions, of each character.
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