• African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was...
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  • African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...
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    American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part...
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  • There has been a significant body of African-American literature and oral tradition for centuries. African-American English began as early as the 17th century...
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    groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the US after White Americans. The term "African American" generally...
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  • the non-written oral traditions and folk life of the African diaspora, African-American literature broke "the mystique of connection between literary authority...
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  • The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance...
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  • This is a timeline of African American Children's literature milestones in the United States from 1600 – present. The timeline also includes selected events...
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  • Tensions between African American and Korean American communities in major U.S. cities gained national attention in the 1980s and 1990s, marked by events...
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  • African-American folktales are the storytelling and oral history of enslaved African Americans during the 1700s–1900s. Prevalent themes in African-American...
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  • of America. African-American literature emerged in the 18th century, with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved author, being the first African American to have...
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  • Jerald Walker is an American writer and professor of creative writing and African American literature at Emerson College. Walker was born in Chicago and...
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  • An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related topics...
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  • This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles...
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    literature Turkish literature Yemeni literature North American literature American literature African American literature Native American literature Southern...
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    Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in...
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  • Erasure (novel) (category African-American novels)
    publication and criticism of African-American literature, and was later adapted by Cord Jefferson into a film titled American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright...
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  • Julia Lee (writer) (category American women novelists)
    (born 1976) is an American writer and professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. She studies African-American literature. Outside of academia...
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    Western canon (category Literature)
    first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart helped draw attention to African literature. Nigerian...
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    United States portal African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of essays on African-American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and...
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    South African literature is the literature of South Africa, which has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda...
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  • all African Americans, nor are all of its speakers African American. As with most English varieties spoken by African Americans, African-American Vernacular...
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    addition, more female and African-American writers began to be accepted as part of Southern literature, including African Americans such as Zora Neale Hurston...
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr. (category 21st-century African-American academics)
    Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered...
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    Ahdaf Soueif (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    com: African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved 2024-04-25. "The Map of Love: A Novel by Ahdaf Soueif". aalbc.com: African American Literature Book...
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  • Black literature is literature created by or for Black people. For more, see: African literature African-American literature Afro-Brazilian literature Black...
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    Saidiya Hartman (category African-American historians)
    Her work focuses on African-American literature, cultural history, photography and ethics, and the intersections of law and literature. Hartman was born...
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  • The New Negro (category African-American literature)
    is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC...
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    Institute Children's Literature Research Collection — includes the Kerlan Collection Givens Collection of African American Literature Immigration History...
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    Stereotypes of African Americans are misleading beliefs about the culture of people with partial or total ancestry from any black racial groups of Africa whose...
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