000149217 000__ 02911mam\a2200397\a\4500 000149217 001__ 149217 000149217 005__ 20210513051621.0 000149217 008__ 920316s1992\\\\ctu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000149217 010__ $$a 92012509 000149217 020__ $$a0313278261 (alk. paper) 000149217 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm25629698 000149217 035__ $$9AAR5266SI 000149217 035__ $$a149217 000149217 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dPMC 000149217 043__ $$an-us--- 000149217 049__ $$aISEA 000149217 05000 $$aPS153.N5$$bL36 1992 000149217 08200 $$a810.9/896073$$220 000149217 24500 $$aLanguage and literature in the African American imagination /$$cedited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay. 000149217 260__ $$aWestport, Conn. :$$bGreenwood Press,$$c1992. 000149217 300__ $$ax, 210 p. ;$$c25 cm. 000149217 440_0 $$aContributions in Afro-American and African studies,$$x0069-9624 ;$$vno. 154 000149217 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000149217 5050_ $$aAfrocentricity and literary theory : the maturing imagination / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- Locating a text : implications of Afrocentric theory / Molefi Kete Asante -- Refusing to be boxed in : Sonia Sanchez's transformation of the Haiku form / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey -- Reassessing African American literature through an Afrocentric paradigm : Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin / Carolyn L. Holmes -- Cultural and linguistic transitions : the comparative case of African Americans and ethnic minorities in Germany / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- African languages in the African American experience / Alamin Mazrui -- Kitchen table talk : J. California Cooper's use of Nommo-female bonding and transcendence / Barbara J. Marshall. 000149217 5050_ $$aDilemma of the dutiful servant : the poetry of Jupiter Hammon / Lonnell E. Johnson -- The blue/black poetics of Sonia Sanchez / Regina B. Jennings -- Afrocentric aesthetics in selected Harlem Renaissance poetry / Abu Shardow Abarry -- Folk idiom in the literary expression of two African American authors : Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa / Kirkland C. Jones -- From nice colored girl to womanist : an exploration of develoment in Ntozake Shange's writings / Geta LeSeur -- De Jure Maurorum in Europa (on the rights of Blacks in Europe) : a Black civil rights activist in Europe in the eighteenth century / Reginald Bess -- The African American imagination in language and literature : an afterword / Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay. 000149217 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism$$xTheory, etc. 000149217 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism. 000149217 650_0 $$aEnglish language$$zUnited States$$xForeign elements$$xAfrican. 000149217 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican influences. 000149217 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xIntellectual life. 000149217 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in literature. 000149217 650_0 $$aAfrican American aesthetics. 000149217 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xLanguage. 000149217 651_0 $$aAfrica$$xIn literature. 000149217 7001_ $$aBlackshire-Belay, Carol. 000149217 85200 $$bgen$$hPS153.N5$$iL36$$i1992 000149217 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:149217$$pGLOBAL_SET 000149217 948__ $$aEGLI 1993 000149217 980__ $$aBIB 000149217 980__ $$aBOOK