18 books like Music in African American Fiction

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Women musicians in Victorian fiction, 1860-1900 Phyllis Weliver · 2000 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This title was first publushed in 2000. Phyllis Weliver investigates representations of female musicians in British novels from 1860 to 1900 with regard to changing gender roles, musical practices and scientific discourses. During this time women were portrayed in complex and nuanced ways as they played and sang in family drawing rooms. Women in the 19th century were judged on their manners,… Shares: Music and literature, Musical fiction, Music, History and criticism

The foremother figure in early black women's literature Jacqueline K. Bryant · 1999 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues that older black woman portrayed in early black women’s works differs significantly from the older black women portrayed in early white women’s works. The foremother figure, then emerging in early black… Shares: African American authors, Intellectual life, History and criticism, History

Arthurian romance and modern poetry and music William Albert Nitze · 1940 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: Music and literature, Music, History and criticism

Dust tracks on a road Zora Neale Hurston · 1942 · ★ 4.1 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging xii, 308, 16 pages: 21 cm Shares: African American authors, African Americans

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 281p · ≈ 9h · Moderate She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their early world revolved around this remarkable woman and the Store she ran for the black community. White people were more than strangers - they were from another planet. And yet, even unseen they ruled. The Store was a microcosm… Shares: African American authors, Intellectual life

Autobiography and Black identity politics Kenneth Mostern · 1999 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Why has autobiography been central to African-American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African-Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience? In Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative… Shares: African American authors, African Americans

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin · 1965 · ★ 4.4 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate African-American fiction Shares: African American authors, African Americans

Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This collection of essays covers such topics as the literature of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. Shares: Intellectual life, History and criticism

If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to… Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

Lettres philosophiques Voltaire · 1733 · ★ 3.7 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Découvrez l'esprit audacieux de Voltaire avec cette édition des "Lettres philosophiques". Rédigées pendant son exil à Londres, ces vingt-cinq lettres reflètent l'esprit critique et la curiosité intellectuelle de Voltaire alors qu'il explore des thèmes variés tels que la religion, la politique, les sciences et les arts. Conçues pour un public non initié à la philosophie, ces correspondances… Shares: Intellectual life, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Soul kiss Shay Youngblood · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Left by her mother in the care of her aunts at the age of seven, Mariah dreams of her mother's return and of the father she has never met, eventually beginning a correspondence with him that leads to a tumultuous visit when she turns fourteen. A first novel. Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903 · ★ 4.3 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society. Shares: Intellectual life, African Americans, History

All God's Children Aaron Gwyn · 2020 This sweeping novel set in the province of Texas is "a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life [and] the vicious influence of racism" (The New York Times).Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live—and love—as he… Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

Paradise Toni Morrison · 1997 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what… Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

British autobiography in the seventeenth century Paul Delany · 1969 · ★ 3.0 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Few works of a personal or self-revelatory nature were published before 1700. On the other hand, we see in seventeenth century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as Journal of the life of me, Confessions, etc. This present work is a study of nearly two hundred of those, published and unpublished."--Page 2 of cover. Shares: Intellectual life, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts Gloria Allaire · 2018 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author’s personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual’s place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a… Shares: Histoire et critique, History and criticism

The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson · 1922 · ★ 4.2 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Shares: African American authors, African Americans

Edinburgh History of Reading Mary Hammond · 2020 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and… Shares: Intellectual life, History and criticism, History

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