Warriors, conjurers and priests : defining African-centered literary criticism / Joyce A. Joyce.
Joyce Ann Joyce brilliantly merges her vision of African American literary criticism with her understanding of the politics of higher education. Collected together, these essays depict the literary critic as a shaman and literary conjurer, steeped in the spirituality and history of Black culture. He...
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Chicago :
Third World Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Warriors, conjurers and priests : defining African-centered literary criticism
- Richard Wright : a romantic and a realist
- Nella Larsen's Passing : a reflection of the American dream
- Ann Petry : an overview of her contribution to African-American literature
- The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks : an African-centered exploration
- Arthur P. Davis : an African-American anthologist in a Euro-American colony
- James Baldwin and black women writers : the connection between history and identity
- Sonia Sanchez and T.S. Eliot
- The aesthetic of E. Ethelbert Miller
- Terry McMillan's Disappearing Acts : healing the wounds between black men and black women
- Falling through the minefield of black feminist criticism : Ishmael Reed, a case in point
- Blacks as a commodity (part one) : scholars and scholarship
- Blacks as a commodity (part two) : the shifting status of blacks in the profession.