Of dreams deferred, dead or alive : African perspectives on African-American writers
Title:
Of dreams deferred, dead or alive : African perspectives on African-American writers
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Femi Ojo-Ade.
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwwod Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
xv, 193 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780313264757
Reading Level:
1390 L Lexile
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Africa and America : a question of continuities, cleavage, and dreams deferred / Femi Ojo-Ade -- W.E.B. Du Bois : the man and his vision of Africa for Africans / F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam -- Langston Hughes and Africa / Eddie Omotayo Asgill -- Richard Wright : a dubious legacy / Chimalum Nwankwo -- Claude McKay : the tragic solitude of an exiled son of Africa / Femi Ojo-Ade -- Another African artist's wayward thoughts on Eugene Redmond's poetry / Tess Onwueme -- Branches of the same tree : African and African-American poetry / Tanure Ojaide -- Notions and nuances : Africa in the works of James Baldwin / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Reviewing Gloria Naylor : toward a Neo-African critique / Vincent O. Odamtten -- Creative African memory : some oral sources of Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" / Ousseynou Traore -- The circle of meaning : Paule Marshall, modernism, and the masks of history / Simon Gikandi -- Homesick and eurocentric? : Alice Walker's Africa / Nwikali Kieti -- "I is" : Toni Morrison, the past, and Africa / Chimalum Nwankwo -- Afterward : what's in a name? / Femi Ojo-Ade.