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A Literary Life
A biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, th...
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic...
The Novels of Toni Morrison
This proceedings volume contains 46 papers presented at the August/September 1989 Symposium, arranged in four parts: fibrinogen and fibrin--biochemist...
Strong Black Women in African American Literature
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black...
In James Baldwin's fiction, according to Trudier Harris, black women are conceptually limited figures until their author ceases to measure them by sta...
Defiance of the law, uses of indirection, moral lapses, and bad habits are as much a part of the folk-transmitted biography of King as they are a part...
In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in th...
Essays on African American Literature
With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in the...
Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. But Harris has always embraced ...
African American Writers and the South
New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, an...
The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
In ways that are highly individual, says Harris, yet still within a shared oral tradition, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan skillf...
Domestics in Black American Literature
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Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals
By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism des...
Fragments of History, Fragments of Self
Original Scholarly Monograph...