Tag: Africana

Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise


Free Download Christel N. Temple, "Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise "
English | ISBN: 1498545084 | 2017 | 244 pages | EPUB | 1309 KB
Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007), have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that comprehensively defines and models literary praxis from the vantage point of Africana Studies. This highly anticipated seminal study finally institutionalizes the discipline’s literary enterprise. Framing the concept of transcendence, she covers over a dozen traditional African American works in an original and thought-provoking analysis that places canonical approaches in enlightened discourse with Africana studies reader-response priorities.

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Introduction to Africana Demography Lessons from Founders E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Atlanta School of


Free Download Lori Latrice Martin, "Introduction to Africana Demography Lessons from Founders E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Atlanta School of"
English | ISBN: 9004433120 | 2020 | 244 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Introduction to Africana Demography book includes an introduction outlining Africana demography and chapters that provide a critique of conventional demographic approaches to understanding race and social institutions, such as the family, religion, and the criminal justice system.

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