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The poet William Waring Cuney (1906-1976) hails from an illustrious
Afro-Texan family whose members include the charismatic politician
Norris Wright Cuney (1846-1898) and his daughter, Maud Cuney Hare
(1874-1936),the concert pianist and writer. Waring Cuney's maternal
line, after whom he was named, was equally eminent. Cuney was born
and raised in Washington D.C., just a few blocks from Howard
University where three generations of his family studied. Despite
his privileged upbringing among the city's Black elite, Cuney
embraced his family's passionate commitment to racial uplift and
civil rights; in exploring the relationship between African
Americans and their environment, he was thus able to transmute into
two books of poetry a broad cross section of African American life;
his poems and songs explore the lives of jazz musicians, athletes,
domestic and railway workers, women and children, blues singers,
prisoners, sharecroppers, and soldiers. In addition, Cuney
published in all the major Harlem Renaissance journals and
anthologies alongside the luminaries of the period, many of whom
were good friends. Through 100 of his best poems, many never
collected or published, and a detailed biographical monograph,
Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney introduces
readers to a newly recovered Harlem Renaissance poet, and to the
history of a remarkable American family.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman" offers the definitive account of this
controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life.
Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) launched her
career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which
she is best-known today, "The Yellow Wallpaper." She was hailed as
the "brains" of the US women's movement, whose focus she sought to
broaden from suffrage to economics. Her most influential
sociological work criticized the competitive individualism of
capitalists and Social Darwinists, and touted altruistic service as
the prerequisite to both social progress and human evolution.
By 1900, Gilman had become an international celebrity, but had
already faced a scandal over her divorce and "abandonment" of her
child. As the years passed, her audience shrunk and grew more
hostile, and she increasingly positioned herself in opposition to
the society that in an earlier, more idealistic period she had seen
as the better part of the self. In her final years, she
unflinchingly faced breast cancer, her second husband's sudden
death, and finally, her own carefully planned suicide-- she
"preferred chloroform to cancer" and cared little for a single life
when its usefulness was over.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman" presents new insights into the life of a
remarkable woman whose public solutions often belied her private
anxieties. It aims to recapture the drama and complexity of
Gilman's life while presenting a comprehensive scholarly portrait.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most prominent of the Harlem
Renaissance women writers, was unique because her social and
professional connections were not limited to literature but
encompassed theatre, dance, film, anthropology, folklore, music,
politics, high society, academia, and artistic bohemia. Hurston
published four novels, three books of nonfiction, and dozens of
short stories, plays, and essays. In addition, she won a long list
of fellowships and prizes, including a Guggenheim and a Rosenwald.
Yet by the 1950s, Hurston, like most of her Harlem Renaissance
peers, had faded into oblivion. An essay by Alice Walker in the
1970s, however, spurred the revival of Hurston's literary
reputation, and her works, including her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were
Watching God, have enjoyed an enduring popularity. Zora Neale
Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism consists
of reviews of critical interpretations of Hurston's work. In
addition to publication information, each selection is carefully
crafted to capture the author's thesis in a short, pithy,
analytical framework. Also included are original essays by eminent
Hurston scholars that contextualize the bibliographic entries.
Meticulously researched but accessible, these essays focus on gaps
in Hurston criticism and outline new directions for Hurston
scholarship in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive and
up-to-date, this volume contains analytical summaries of the most
important critical writings on Zora Neale Hurston from the 1970s to
the present. In addition, entries from difficult-to-locate sources,
such as small academic presses or international journals, can be
found here. Although intended as a bibliographic resource for
graduate and undergraduate students, this volume is also aimed
toward general readers interested in women's literature, African
American literature, American history, and popular culture. The
book will also appeal to scholars and teachers studying
twentieth-century American literature, as well as those
specializing in anthropology, modernism, and African American
studies, with a special focus on the women of the Harlem
Renaissance.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman" offers the definitive account of this
controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life.
Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) launched her
career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which
she is best-known today, "The Yellow Wallpaper." She was hailed as
the "brains" of the US women's movement, whose focus she sought to
broaden from suffrage to economics. Her most influential
sociological work criticized the competitive individualism of
capitalists and Social Darwinists, and touted altruistic service as
the prerequisite to both social progress and human evolution.
By 1900, Gilman had become an international celebrity, but had
already faced a scandal over her divorce and "abandonment" of her
child. As the years passed, her audience shrunk and grew more
hostile, and she increasingly positioned herself in opposition to
the society that in an earlier, more idealistic period she had seen
as the better part of the self. In her final years, she
unflinchingly faced breast cancer, her second husband's sudden
death, and finally, her own carefully planned suicide-- she
"preferred chloroform to cancer" and cared little for a single life
when its usefulness was over.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman" presents new insights into the life of a
remarkable woman whose public solutions often belied her private
anxieties. It aims to recapture the drama and complexity of
Gilman's life while presenting a comprehensive scholarly portrait.
"Recovers Coleman's life and literary legacy"
One of the most distinctive and prolific writers of the Harlem
Renaissance, Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960) found popular and
critical success in the flourishing African American press of the
early twentieth century. Yet unlike many of her New York-based
contemporaries, Coleman lived her life in the American West, first
in New Mexico and later in California. Her work thus offers a rare
view of African American life in that region.
Broader in scope than any previous anthology of Coleman's
writings, this volume collects the author's finest stories, essays,
and poems, including many not published since they first appeared
in African American newspapers during the 1920s, '30s, and '40's.
Editors Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell introduce these
writings with an in-depth biographical essay that places Coleman in
the context of the Harlem Renaissance movement.
The volume also features vintage family photographs, a detailed
chronology, and a genealogical tree covering five generations of
the Coleman family. Based on extensive research and written with
the full cooperation of the Coleman family, "Western Echoes of the
Harlem Renaissance" gives readers new understanding of this
overlooked writer's life and literary accomplishments.
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Some Men Are Our Heroes (Paperback)
Keumju Jewel Hyun, Cynthia Davis Lathrop; Foreword by Alice P Mathews
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Do the little things we do and say really make a difference in the
lives of others? Some Men Are Our Heroes answers this question with
a resounding "yes" as eight accomplished Christian women tell the
stories of the men in their lives who helped them achieve
remarkable things for God's kingdom. These touching stories of
women from around the world and the fathers, husbands, brothers,
pastors, colleagues, and friends who encouraged, strengthened, and
challenged them along their life journeys will warm the hearts of
women and men alike.
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Cynthia Davis, best-selling, award winning author of Biblical
fiction takes the reader into the love story of a simple carpenter
and his beloved wife. In Mary, My Love, the couple seeks to serve
the Holy One of Israel. An encounter with God changes their lives,
sets the couple against the powers of the 1st Century, and changes
the world forever. Welcome to a refreshing look at the lives and
struggles of Mary and Joseph of Nazareth.
The fifth in Cynthia Davis' series of visual explorations of
Michigan and Great Lakes locales, ""Chicago"" offers a look at one
of America's great cities unlike any other. Here, Davis turns her
artist's eye on Chicago in these remarkable hand-altered Polaroid
photographs. Davis creates her work by manipulating the gel-like
chemicals in Polaroid photographs while they're still developing,
imbuing her pictures with a dream-like quality, somewhere between
photorealism and impressionist painting. Anyone who has traversed
Chicago's Magnificent Mile, lounged on its sunny beaches, wandered
through the canyons of the Loop, or explored the diversity of its
many neighborhoods will appreciate how Davis transforms well-known
terrain into landscapes at once familiar and magically new.
Miriam's Healing is the story of Miriam, older sister of Moses. Her
journey to faith in the midst of slavery speaks to all of us who
ask, "Where is God in suffering and inequity?" As the young girl
saves her baby brother's life and becomes a frequent visitor to the
house of Pharaoh, she dreams of saving her family from slavery. Her
relationship with her brother, chosen Deliverer of the nation, is
marred by jealousy that nearly destroys the refugee nation of
Israel. Will Miriam be too envious and resentful of her brothers,
priest and prophet to the people, to see that she too has a gift?
Only after she learns that in the Living God is true freedom can
she relinquish her animosity and fulfill her destiny as the bearer
of the story of the mighty works of God.
New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black
Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays
that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers.
On the one hand, some Black women writers have been heavily
anthologized, they have more often than not been restricted by
critical metanarratives. Some of their works have been lionized
while others remain neglected. On the other hand, some Black women
writers have been ignored and understudied. This collection
corrects the gaps in our critical thinking about Black women
writers by introducing them to a new generation of undergraduate
and graduate students, and by presenting pedagogical essays to our
colleagues currently working in the field.
Despite her strong associations with Massachusetts - her upbringing
in Roxbury, her lifelong connection with Martha's Vineyard, and two
novels documenting the Great Migration and the rise and decline of
Boston's African American community - Dorothy West (1907-1998) is
perhaps best known as a member of the Harlem Renaissance. Between
1927 and 1947, West and her cousin, the poet Helen Johnson, lived
in New York City, where West attended Columbia University, worked
as a welfare investigator, wrote for the WPA, traveled to Russia,
and established a literary magazine for young black writers. During
these years, West and Johnson knew virtually everyone in New York's
artistic, intellectual, and political circles. Their friends
included Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten,
Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, and many others. West
moved easily between the bohemian milieu of her artistic soul mates
and the respectable bourgeois soirees of prominent social and
political figures. In this book, Professors Mitchell and Davis
provide a carefully researched profile of West and her circle that
serves as an introduction to a well edited, representative
collection of her out of print, little known, or unpublished
writings, supplemented by many family photographs. The editors
document West's ""womanist"" upbringing and her relationships with
her mother, Rachel Benson West, and other strong-minded women,
including her longtime companion, Marian Minus. The volume includes
examples of West's probing social criticism in the form of WPA
essays and stories, as well as her interviews with southern
migrants. A centerpiece of the book is her unpublished novella,
Where the Wild Grape Grows, which explores with grace and gentle
irony the complex relationship of three retired women living on
Martha's Vineyard. Several of West's exquisitely observed nature
pieces, published over a span of twenty years in the Vineyard
Gazette, are also reprinted.
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists,
musicians, novelists, and playwrights, whose work combined
innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts and
theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and
autonomy-along with the radical politics of the Civil Rights
Movement, the Black Muslims and the Black Panthers-these figures
represented a collective effort to defy the status quo of American
life and culture. Between the late 1950s and the end of the 1970s,
the movement produced some of America's most original and
controversial artists and intellectuals. In The Encyclopedia of the
Blacks Arts Movement, Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis have
collected essays on the key figures of the movement including Maya
Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Larry Neal,
Sun Ra, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, and Archie Shepp. Additional
essays focus on Black Theatre magazine, the Negro Ensemble Company,
and lesser known individuals-including Kathleen Collins, Tom Dent,
Bill Gunn, June Jordan, and Barbara Ann Teer-and groups, such as
AfriCOBRA and the New York Umbra Poetry Workshop. Featuring essays
by contemporary scholars and rare photographs of BAM artists, The
Encyclopedia of the Blacks Arts Movement is an essential reference
for students and scholars of twentieth century American literature
and African-American cultural studies.
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