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An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State

An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the novels and short stories of Ernest Gaines in college literature classrooms, including considerations of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, influences, slavery, Jim Crow, black power, the black arts movement, humor, folk culture, film, adaptations, and criminal law. Includes information on reference works and online resources.

This book celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. Featuring chapters by distinguished critics of African American poetry and prose, it places particular emphasis on the role of New Orleans, sexuality, gender, madness, death, and remembrance in her oeuvre, and on Osbey's eloquent revision of hemispheric history.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the novels and short stories of Ernest Gaines, including considerations of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, influences, slavery, Jim Crow, black power, the black arts movement, humour, folk culture, film, adaptations, and criminal law. Includes information on reference works and online resources.

Focusing on the states of the Deep South in relation with Mexico and island nations such as Haiti and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of Southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean, " a fluid and dynamic framework within which to consider literary history, genre, and aesthetics."--

In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep So...

This new scholarly collection provides an interdisciplinary, multicultural approach to Louisiana's rich and exceptional history. It expertly traces the unique influence of the state on national and international issues and events. Essays on French explorers, Native Americans, slavery, creoles and creolization, immigrant and travel writing, fiction, poetry, folklore, politics, music, funerary traditions, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina a...

Zora Neale Hurston emerged as a celebrated writer of the Harlem Renaissance, fell into obscurity toward the end of her life, yet is now recognised as a great American author. This volume helps instructors situate Hurston's work against the various cultures that engendered it and understand her success as short story writer, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, folklorist, and anthropologist.

Zora Neale Hurston emerged as a celebrated writer of the Harlem Renaissance, fell into obscurity toward the end of her life, yet is now recognised as a great American author. This volume helps instructors situate Hurston's work against the various cultures that engendered it and understand her success as short story writer, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, folklorist, and anthropologist.