Literary Influence and African-American Writers: Collected Essays

by Tracy Mishkin (Editor)

Overview

First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at theories and realities of literary influence that especially affect African-American writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815317241
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1995
Series:	Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture , #10
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Theorizing Literary Influence and African-American Writers, Tracy Mishkin; Part 1 The Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2 Strategies of Black Characterization in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel, Richard Yarborough; Chapter 3 Break Dancing in the Drawing Room: Mark Twain and African-American Voices, Shelley Fisher Fishkin; Chapter 4 A Trick of Mediation: Charles Chesnutt’s Conflicted Literary Relationship with Albion Tourgée, Peter Caccavari; Part 2 African-American and Irish Literature; Chapter 5 “About Us, For Us, Near Us”: The Irish and Harlem Renaissances, Brian Gallagher; Chapter 6 Afro-Celtic Connections: From Frederick Douglass to The Commitments, George Bornstein; Chapter 7 “How Black Sees Green and Red”: African-American and Irish Interaction in the Early Twentieth Century, Tracy Mishkin; Part 3 Early to Mid-Twentieth Century; Chapter 8 Irony without Condescension: Sterling A. Brown’s Nod to Robert Frost, Mark Jeffreys; Chapter 9 Carlos Bulosan’s literary Debt to Richard Wright, Helen Jaskoski; Chapter 10 Theoretical Dimensions of Invisible Man, Pierre A. Walker; Part 4 Contemporary; Chapter 11 Swing to the White, Back to the Black: Writing and “Sourcery” in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, Richard Hardack; Chapter 12 “Kin and Kin”: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton, Alicia Ostriker; Chapter 13 Shakespeare’s Naylor, Naylor’s Shakespeare: Shakespearean Allusion as Appropriation in Gloria Naylor’s Quartet, Peter Erickson; Chapter 14 On Stepping into Footprints Which Feel Like Your Own: Literacy, Empowerment, and the African-American Literary Tradition, Reggie Young;