African American Review articles from September 2006

African American Review archives from September 2006

Black like?: The strange case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins.(Biography)
September 22, 2006... "The question of who is or is not black, while usually easy to decide, sometimes becomes a problem."--William P. French, bibliophile The recuperation of previously "lost" or "forgotten" texts has long been a necessary component of African...

Race, modernism, and plagiarism: the case of Nella Larsen's "Sanctuary".(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... "I'm in trouble." His hands were shaking a little. "What you done?" "I shot a man, Mrs. Adis." (Kaye-Smith 321) "Ah's in trubble, Mis' Poole," the man explained, his voice shaking, his fingers twitching. "W'at you done done...

Buried alive: gothic homelessness, black women's sexuality, and (living) death in Ann Petry's The Street.(Ann Lane Petry)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... [A]ll through the darkest period of the colored woman's oppression in this country her yet unwritten history is full of heroic struggle, a struggle against fearful and overwhelming odds, that often ended in a horrible death, to maintain and...

Knucklebones and knocking-bones: the accidental trickster in Ellison's Invisible Man.(Ralph Ellison)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... In "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke," published in Partisan Review in 1958, Ralph Ellison discusses with his friend Stanley Edgar Hyman the relationship between African American literature and African American folklore. In particular, Ellison...

Burbanking bigger and bette the bitch.(movies and novels on racism)
September 22, 2006... It surprises no one that Native Son (1940) was not adapted to film by Warner Brothers Studio. In fact, an analysis of the novel's rejection by Hollywood may seem an exercise in the obvious: Hollywood studios of the studio era (1928-1948) were...

Slavery, labor reform, and intertextuality in antebellum print culture: the slave narrative and the city-mysteries novel.
September 22, 2006... Some of the most provocative recent scholarship in the fields of 19th-century American studies and American literature has been devoted to recovering exchanges between black and white cultural forms. (1) Writing specifically about the...

Historical memory, romantic narrative, and Sally Hemings.
September 22, 2006... In 1998 scientist Eugene Foster published the results of a DNA study suggesting that Thomas Jefferson may have fathered at least one of his slave Sally Hemings's children. The study revived longstanding rumors--some quite derogatory in their...

W. E. B. Du Bois's UnAmerican end.
September 22, 2006... The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal. For the colored peoples all over the world, whose rising influence is axiomatic, this scandal is salt in their wounds.... [However,] the American Negro is thoroughly...

Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.(James Weldon Johnson)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... At the center of James Weldon Johnson's 1912 novel lies the relationship between the nameless narrator and the equally nameless "patron" who pays the narrator to serve as a living phonograph. (1) The patron hires the narrator to accompany him...

Between image and word, color and time: Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Jacob Lawrence canvasses tell pictorial stories, angular visions of fear and seeking and struggle and triumph.--Langston Hughes (qtd. in Spaulding 51) "And the migrants kept coming. In 1941, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, a visual...

Arlene R. Keizer. Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Arlene R. Keizer. Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2004. 224 pp. $45.00 cloth/$18.95 paper. In Black Subjects, Arlene R. Keizer pursues two goals: to theorize the...

Manthia Diawara. We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Manthia Diawara. We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World. New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2003.271 pp. $26.00 cloth/$10.40 paper. The unabashed racial profiling and repeated public humiliations doled out by French police officers...

Heike Raphael-Hernandez, ed. Blackening Europe: The African American Presence.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Heike Raphael-Hernandez, ed. Blackening Europe: The African American Presence. New York: Routledge, 2004. 314 pp. $26.95. Americans who travel to Europe for the first time are sometimes amazed to find that African American music has...

Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2005. 229 pp. $64.50 cloth/$22.95 paper. Tiffany Ruby Patterson delights in the history of the black US South throughout her recounting of...

A. Van Jordan. M-a-c-n-o-l-i-a.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A. Van Jordan. M-a-c-n-o-l-i-a. New York: Norton, 2004. 144 pp. $13.95. "Macnolia" is defined as "a Negro who spells and reads as well as [if not better than] any white." A. Van Jordan's second book of poetry is a biographical portrait of...

Edward P. Jones. All Aunt Hagar's Children.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Edward P. Jones. All Aunt Hagar's Children. New York: Amistad P, 2006.416 pp. $25.95. Edward P. Jones has only written a handful of books: Lost in the City, a collection of short stories in 1992, The Known World, a novel, in 2003, and his...

Lisa A. Long, ed. White Scholars/African American Texts.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Lisa A. Long, ed. White Scholars/African American Texts. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005. 247 pp. $62.00 cloth/$22.95 paper. The second half of 2005 saw the publication of a spate of books addressing the perennial question of whether the...

Stanley Crouch. The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Stanley Crouch. The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 224 pp. $24.00 cloth/$14.00 paper. The theme of Stanley Crouch's Artificial White Man is authenticity--a rather tall order the definition of...

Joanne V. Gabbin, Judith McCray, and Elizabeth Howarth, producers. Ed. John Hodges. Furious Flower II: The Black Poetic Tradition.(Video recording review)
September 22, 2006... Joanne V. Gabbin, Judith McCray, and Elizabeth Howarth, producers. Ed. John Hodges. Furious Flower II: The Black Poetic Tradition. San Francisco: Newsreel, 2005. VHS, DVD 3 Episodes, approx. 60 min. each. Price varies from $99.00-$195.00...

Terrance Hayes. Hip Logic.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Terrance Hayes. Hip Logic. New York: Penguin, 2002. 103 pp. $10.40 paper. Terrance Hayes's poetry moves in many directions simultaneously: confessional exploration of identity; various degrees of dissociated formal innovation and cultural...

Eithne Quinn. Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Eithne Quinn. Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. New York: Columbia UP, 2005. 251 pp. $62.50 cloth/$16.35 paper. The subtitle of Eithne Quinn's Nuthin' but a "G" Thang does not really prepare one for the...