Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 2008

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 2008

Upon reading Wright's "between the world and me".(Poem)
September 22, 2008... The high school girl understands Wright as a black boy's keeper, undeniable native son trapped in an unpromised land. She picks up the battered paperback emblazoned with Black Voices, imagines absent names from her...

Uncle Tom's children revisited.(Uncle Tom's Children)
September 22, 2008... Revisiting Uncle Tom's Children seventy years after its initial publication in 1938, we can profit from recalling a pithy exchange between Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston in the form of book reviews. Wright put himself in conversation...

The multiple frames for a dynamic diaspora in Richard Wright's Black Power.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... The life of Richard Wright, born in 1908 less than a half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment's ratification ended U.S. slavery, in some way stands as testament to the United States' ability to reinvent itself. In less than fifty years,...

Richard Wright and digital movements.
September 22, 2008... In November 2007, the online bookseller Amazon released the Kindle, an electronic-book (e-book) reader, and sparked publicity for this new device capable of holding the contents of hundreds of books. A few e-book reader devices had preceded the...

Tougaloo College, Richard Wright, and me: teaching Wright to the millennial student.
September 22, 2008... Tougaloo College is a small, private, historically black liberal arts college in Mississippi. Regarded as the cradle of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Tougaloo College's historic Woodworth Chapel has seen prominent figures of the...

Meeting Richard Wright in the mountains: reflections on teaching at Northern Arizona University.
September 22, 2008... Teaching African American literature can be a challenge that one is hardly prepared for and that requires much by way of patience and creativity. I was trained to teach African American literature at a large, predominantly white university in...

11 haiku.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... 1. A sharecropper's son exchanged hunger for a sword words against the world 2. A sidewalk cafe Wine with Sartre and Camus Which way did God go? 3. In America Black people and ghetto life...

An "other" destiny: mimesis, parody, and assimilation.
September 22, 2008... There is a deeply painful moment in Ekow Eshun's travel narrative Black Gold of the Sun when the London-born, young black protagonist goes to Ghana. It is important to note that this journey to his parents' home country is taken in a profoundly...

Look left, look Wright: observations from the City of Light.(Richard Wright)
September 22, 2008... I. Richard Wright wrote Black Boy just for me. Of that, I was certain. At least that's what I told myself as a lanky, lumbering seventh grade girl, a mess of wiry hair and thick, nearsighted lenses, ones I kept interred between the pages...

"A great maltese cat toying with a white mouse".(Poem)
September 22, 2008... African-American authors writing in the first half of the twentieth century--from Langston Hughes to Richard Wright to Sterling A. Brown--felt a kinship with African-American prize fighters. Because of their race, African-American boxers were...

Challenging conversations: notes on the Blueprints for Progress Workshop.
September 22, 2008... Contrary to the popular theory that people should not talk politics at the dinner table, people can actually benefit by talking about politics and progress much more frequently. Often times, however, engaging in dialogue about progressive ideas...

From here to Fredonia.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2008... Comfort We Know COMPOSED BY KYLE GEORGER Lots of woods, farm animals, corn, and the smell of manure define my home environment. Over the summer, I would wake up every morning at seven a.m., help with the cleaning of the barn, feed the...