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African American Literature. Origin Slave South America Black Literature. African American Literature. Emphasis on Slave Narrative Autobiographical note Diaspora heritage- Africa Post colonial literature. African American Literature. Early Literature :
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African American Literature • Origin • Slave • South America • Black Literature
African American Literature • Emphasis on Slave Narrative • Autobiographical note • Diaspora heritage- Africa • Post colonial literature
African American Literature • Early Literature: • Lucy Terry- wrote ballad- Bars Fight in 1746 • Josiah Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts in 1855 • Phillis Wheatley- (1753-84) • Jupiter Hammon- (1711-1806)-the first published Black writer in America-"An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries“ poem
African American Literature • The first African-American novel -Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859)- her novel is about the difficulties for the freedom of Northern black people. • Slave Narrative
African American Literature • Slave Narrative • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) • Harriet Jacobs- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) • Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–95) – ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’ (1845)
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–95) Phillis Wheatley- (1753-84)
African American Literature • Post-slavery era • W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) • original founders of NAACP in 1910. • collection of essays entitled ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ • Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) • Up From Slavery (1901)
African American Literature • JamaicanMarcus Garvey (1887–1940), was a newspaper publisher, journalist, and activist for Pan Africanism • founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA)
African American Literature • Harlem Renaissance-1920 to 1940 • Langston Hughes- ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’ in 1922 • Zora Neale Hurston- Novelist- ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ (1937)
African American Literature • Civil Rights Movement Era • Great Migration During World War II • Settled in Chicago • Richard Wright- Native Son (1940) • James Baldwin • Ralph Ellison- Invisible man (1940)
Ralph Ellison Richard Wright
African American Literature • Black Drama: • Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun • Amiri Baraka
African American Literature • Contemporary Black Literature • Toni Morrison- Beloved- Nobel Prize • Alice Walker- The Color Purple
