African literature

Compare & Contrast Between Genres Vernacular in African American literature are spirituals , gospel , hip - hop , country , and hymns all these different types genres are from different time periods that were either past down or put together to make thee other. The genres i would like to compare is hip-hop and gospels people assume that they are so different because one lifts up the followers and the believers of christ and the other talks about money , women , & drugs. The first published…

try to reach them. I do not believe that African American literature should only be required for African American students. It is important that teachers are able to depict all races and genders in the books they choose. Books about young white adults are quite common and could be seen as normal. Students have been reading those books for years. It would be an excellent exercise to have all students regardless of their race read African American literature. In the article “The Importance of…

the postbellum era. Some people may wonder if this is a deviation from reality, but the truth is this kind of revisionism is in itself a historical truth, something emerging in something the writer is living at the moment. If we can read African-American literature and appreciate its constantly renewing revisionism, then we can get…

Ethnicity/Race Two factors that are similar to each other but different are race and ethnicity. The two ethnicities that were discussed a lot in the literature was Hispanics and African Americans. Both ethnicity’s tend to have a lower number of alcohol abuse than other ethnicities. However those who do qualify as an individual with an alcohol abuse issue have higher consumption rates and higher odds for participating in binge drinking. Individually Hispanics have higher cirrhosis death rates. It…

Ralph Waldo Emerson or Walt Whitman, American literature was not treated as independent tradition for a long time. Even in American schools when national authors were discussed they were always somehow fused with British ones until the end of the 19th century. Within the literature of The United States we can find a significant number of various influences such as Native American legends written down long after they were told, New England novels, African American songs and stories, women's…

Movement post Civil War (Janney). In Caroline E. Janney's article discussing the "Lost Cause", she explains how the movement sought to rebrand slavery by means of literature, such as Gone with the Wind, that sentimentalized the stereotyped "happy slave, the "Mammy" or "Uncle Tom" role of African Americans (Janney). Literature often portrayed African Americans slaves in a way that presented them as "faithful slaves," loyal to their masters and the Confederate cause “who could not handle the many…

The element “Water” plays a prevalent role in all African American Literature, whether that role be in the form of tears or a huge body of water that slaves had to go across. Although water is often viewed as the chance for opportunity and a chance for better life, in some instances it is the exact opposite. In some cases water is often interpreted through painful emotion or described as a gruesome stand point in one’s mind. This controversial element is presented to us in Andrea Levy’s “Small…

decision of my life. For the first time in my educational career, I had teachers who were experts in their fields, peers I related to, and never felt discouraged from taking a risk. Until recently. This semester, I am taking the class African-American Literature, the most rigorous course I’ve ever taken. Because of the uncomfortable nature of the topics discussed, the class has become intimate, like a family. A recent assignment, Roots of Rap, had three major components; choose a genre of rap,…

approach that we choose to study African Literature enables us to make consideration between the complex realities of African literature. In the article Reading Through Western Eyes by Christopher L. Miller, the author describes much about how Westerners read African literature from their culture perspective; since most Westerners don’t really know the culture they read what the western scholars critique. In order to critique and better understand African literature, the following paragraphs…

Chinua Achebe was considered one of the greatest African writers of modern fictional literature during his life. He had been called “the father of modern African literature” by Nadine Gordimer and had been credited with “inaugurating the modern African novel.” His works have been critically acclaimed for years, but to truly understand his literature, one must understand his life story. He or she must also look at his background, professional life and education, and the strange stories and…