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Afro – A merican literature and B lack power

Afro – A merican literature and B lack power. Worked by Markéta Svobodová 2010/2011. Content. Afro- A merican literature main them e s of books from a.a. authors main authors black power right meaning Black Panther party Barack Obama. Afro- A merican literature.

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Afro – A merican literature and B lack power

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  1. Afro – American literature and Black power Worked by Markéta Svobodová 2010/2011

  2. Content • Afro-American literature • main themes of books from a.a. authors • main authors • black power • right meaning • Black Panther party • Barack Obama

  3. Afro-American literature • Main themes of books from a.a. authors • Slavery • Comunity • Culture • Also other themes with no connection with authors origin

  4. Afro-Americanliterature • Popular authors • Phillis Wheatley • Harriet Wilson • Harriet Jacobs • Toni Morrison • Richard Wright • Frederick Douglass

  5. Afro-American literature • Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784), • America's First Black Woman Poet • From Senegal • Pieces: • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

  6. Afro-American literature • Harriet Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) • One of the first Afro-American author, whose novel was published • Pieces: • „Our nig“ – in many ways autobiographical

  7. Statue of Harriet Wilson Phillis Wheatley

  8. Afro-American literature • Harriet Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) • Published her anguished life experiences • Pieces: • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – confession about sexual harrasment in slavery by masters to slave women

  9. Afro-American literature • Richard Wright (4. 9.1908 – 28. 11. 1960) • Books: • Uncle Tom‘s children • Black Power • Native son • The Outsider • Black Boy

  10. Richard Wright Harriet Jacobs

  11. Afro-Americanliterature • Frederick Douglass (circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) • Leader of abolitionist movement • Antislavery writer • Books: • The Heroic Slave • My Bondage and My Freedom • A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

  12. Frederick Douglass

  13. Afro-Americanliterature • Toni Morrison – Chloe Anthony Wofford (18. 2. 1931) • 1993 Nobel prize for literaure • Pieces: • The bluest Eye 1970 • Beloved1987 ( 1988 Pullitzer prize) • Jazz 1992 • Love 2003

  14. Tonni Morrison

  15. Blackpower • The right meaning • Political slogan introducing effort of black african race people throughout the world and primarily in the USA • To realize the main intentions – to present the pride of a. a. people, make their own political system, culture institutions and incomporate black race to the other human races

  16. Blackpower • First used in Richard Wright‘s book called „Black power“ (1954) • 1966 used this term by New York politician Adam Clayton Powell • „To demand these God-given rights is to seek black power“

  17. Blackpower • As a slogan was „Black power“ used by Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks from SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • SNCC = part of American civil rights movement (1960‘s)

  18. Tommie Smith, John Carlos ; 1968; Olympic games in Mexico City

  19. Blackpower • Black panthers party • Huey P. Newton • Primary purpose = to help poor a. a. people • Ideology: marxism, leninism, socialism, black nationalism • Battles with police, FBI • COINTELPRO

  20. Blackpower • New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense • Malik Zulu Shabazz – attorney of NBPP

  21. Blackpower • Barack Obama

  22. Resources: • http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k6UrCPbZSuUJ:www.anglistika.upol.cz/OtazkyAmLit2.doc+afro+americk%C3%A1+literatura&cd=1&hl=cs&ct=clnk&gl=cz • https://is.muni.cz/th/66111/pedf_m/DIPLOMOVA_PRACE_1.pdf • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power • http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/wheatley.html • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/644700/Harriet-E-Wilson • http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rwright.htm • http://www.google.cz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mvheritagetrail.org/images/powell3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mvheritagetrail.org/powell-house.html&usg=__h0hKJkr-oKvn9mt6ONS4Jnwa1As=&h=300&w=406&sz=25&hl=cs&start=24&zoom=1&tbnid=SoLMfdv0tlvqUM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=177&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dadam%2Bclayton%2Bpowell%2Bjr%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dcs%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2SKPB_csCZ368%26biw%3D1378%26bih%3D610%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C372&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=313&vpy=230&dur=547&hovh=193&hovw=261&tx=133&ty=85&ei=ITuoTKblBJWSjAftnfXTDA&oei=DDuoTIOXL43EswaCqYzRDA&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:24&biw=1378&bih=610 • http://www.google.cz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/black-power.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/%3Fm%3D200902&usg=__61DuxbcrZT_XqYZazgW7G7t-PUQ=&h=371&w=307&sz=11&hl=cs&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=shCR_9nIXp6luM:&tbnh=151&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblack%2Bpower%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dcs%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2SKPB_csCZ368%26biw%3D1378%26bih%3D610%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=461&vpy=57&dur=203&hovh=247&hovw=204&tx=139&ty=107&ei=v0CoTIjRBMeAswaEwM3PDA&oei=v0CoTIjRBMeAswaEwM3PDA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0 • http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=620406 • http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/02/express/from-black-power-to-barack-obama

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