Of dreams deferred, dead or alive : African perspectives on African-American writers

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Title:

Of dreams deferred, dead or alive : African perspectives on African-American writers

Author:

Ojo-Ade, Femi.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

Physical Description:

xv, 193 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 180

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, ; no. 180.

Language:

English

Contents:

Africa and America : a question of continuities, cleavage, and dreams deferred / W.E.B. Du Bois : the man and his vision of Africa for Africans / Langston Hughes and Africa / Richard Wright : a dubious legacy / Claude McKay : the tragic solitude of an exiled son of Africa / Another African artist's wayward thoughts on Eugene Redmond's poetry / Branches of the same tree : African and African-American poetry / Notions and nuances : Africa in the works of James Baldwin / Reviewing Gloria Naylor : toward a Neo-African critique / Creative African memory : some oral sources of Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" / Circle of meaning : Paule Marshall, modernism, and the masks of history / Homesick and eurocentric? : Alice Walker's Africa / "I is" : Toni Morrison, the past, and Africa / Afterward : what's in a name?

Reading Level:

1390 Lexile.

Subject Term:

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- African American authors -- Appreciation -- Africa.

African Americans in literature.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- In literature.

Added Author:

Ojo-Ade, Femi.

ISBN:

9780313264757