African American Review articles from September 2005

African American Review archives from September 2005

Katrina: a matrix of stories.(Back Talk)
September 22, 2005... In those brief, rare moments since August 29, 2005, when I am my old self and not out for daily walks on a tightrope of despair, I think about the importance of stories. In the unsettling aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I focus on narratives...

Lloyd Richards: reminiscence of a theatre life and beyond.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Lloyd Richards, who was born in Toronto, Canada, moved to Detroit, Michigan, with his family when he was four. He graduated from Wayne State University before moving to New York in 1947 to pursue an acting career. His commitment to the theatre...

Whose will be done?: self-determination in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's daughter.
September 22, 2005... Pauline Hopkins concludes her serialized novel Hagar's Daughter (1901-1902) with an unattributed quote from Longfellow: "A boy's will is the wind's will, / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts" (284). Although this line repeats one...

James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan and the Kingdom of American Culture.
September 22, 2005... Surely there shall yet dawn some mighty morning to lift the Veil and set the prisoned free.... When men ask artists, not "Are they black?" but "Do they know?"--W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk 510 "To the general American public,"...

The Zombie in/as the text: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse.
September 22, 2005... Zora Neale Hurston struggled to achieve a personal voice against prevailing attitudes about race, and in her writing there is a clear connection between voice and self-empowerment that has been explored extensively in Hurston criticism. (1) Her...

Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera.
September 22, 2005... Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell within. (Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road 127) In comparing the...

Invisible Man and African American radicalism in World War II.
September 22, 2005... Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man bears a complex, ambiguous, and ultimately extraordinarily rich relation to the milieu that gave it birth, African American social radicalism in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Rather than simply providing...

Inheriting the criminalized black body: race, gender, and slavery in Eva's Man.
September 22, 2005... The question is not whether slavery still exists but whether people still treat each other as if it did. (Roach 231) It is secret that racial minorities constitute a disproportionate percentage of those incarcerated in the United States....

The Other side of paradise: Toni Morrison's (un)making of mythic history.
September 22, 2005... Paradise (1998), Toni Morrison's seventh novel and her first since becoming the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), was greeted with the most mixed reviews of the author's three-decade career. Reviewers...

Creating the beloved community: religion, race, and nation in Toni Morrison's paradise.
September 22, 2005... In Paradise (1998), the third novel in Toni Morrison's historical trilogy that includes Beloved (1987) and Jazz (1992), Morrison continues to unearth key moments in African American history to explore the complex origins of black identity and...

"As if I had entered a paradise": fugitive slave narratives and cross-border literary history.
September 22, 2005... I then made up my mind that salt and potatoes in Canada, were better than pound-cake and chickens in a state of suspense and anxiety in the United States.--Reverend Alexander Hemsley, Fugitive slave from St. Catherine's, Upper Canada They...

Sections of an orange.(Fictional Work)
September 22, 2005... When police and store security responded to a 7:25 a.m. alarm, they found a hole in a street display window at the shop at 744 Fifth Avenue, near 58th Street. The train bursts out of the subway tunnel onto elevated tracks that climb up to...

Jonathan D. Martin. Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Jonathan D. Martin. Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004. 237 pp. $39.95. In reading Jonathan Martin's Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, I was reminded of Albert O. Hirschman's...

Cheryl J. Fish. Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Cheryl J. Fish. Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004. 224 pp. $59.95. In Black and White Women's Travel Narratives, Cheryl J. Fish tracks the wide-ranging and often...

Johnnie M. Stover. Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Johnnie M. Stover. Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2003. 244 pp. $55.00. In the introduction to Rhetoric and Resistance, Johnnie M. Stover writes, "The flexible, versatile African American...

Haakayoo N. Zoggyie. In Search of the Fathers: The Poetics of Disalienation in the Narrative of Two Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Writers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Haakayoo N. Zoggyie. In Search of the Fathers: The Poetics of Disalienation in the Narrative of Two Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Writers. New Orleans: UP of the South, 2003. 238 pp. $49.95. The volume written by Zoggyie intends to trace the...

Mary E. Weems. Public Education and Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Mary E. Weems. Public Education and Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 125 pp. $24.95. Public Education and Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth is an...

Stacy I. Morgan. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Stacy I. Morgan. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 19301953. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2004. 366 pp. $54.95 cloth/$24.95 paper. Stacy I. Morgan's book Rethinking Social Realism could not have appeared at a...

John F. Callahan, ed. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... John F. Callahan, ed. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 352 pp. $55.00 cloth/ $21.95 paper. This casebook provides what many college and university professors have sought for a long time, a relatively...

Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2004. 290 pp. $49.50. Harry J. Elam, Jr.'s, recent book, The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson, provides an in-depth analysis of...

Jim McWilliams, ed. Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Jim McWilliams, ed. Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson. Foreword by Charles Johnson. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2004. 336 pp. $40.00 cloth/ $22.50 paper. Few living authors can match the complexity, the philosophical...

Lee Brown, ed. African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Lee Brown, ed. African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 194 pp. $19.95. This anthology is one of a kind in the growing literature in African philosophy: it is a breath of fresh air in two different...