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Black Literary History Making
The HBW Blog published regularly for ten years from 2011-2021 at the URL https://projecthbw.ku.edu. During that time, it served as a major forum for the exchange of information and ideas, as well as a robust network for scholars, teachers, and students from different disciplines around the world.
Guest contributors include leading scholars and writers, but most of the posts were conceived of, researched, and written by HBW's staff of undergraduate and graduate students. Its content consists of feature editorials, book reviews, memorials, and coverage of HBW programming. Altogether, 95 writers contributed more than 750 posts.
The HBW Blog Archive is searchable by topic, month and year, and contributor name.
| Blog Post/Link | Date |
|---|---|
| NYC Novels 22 novels in the “100 Novels Collection” that take place in New York City or have major scenes in New York... | |
| Richard Wright Following yesterday’s entry on Ralph Ellison, I am concluding this week on Richard Wright as I offer up a few notes on how Wikipedia portrays his biographical page. .. | |
| Ralph Ellison Today, I focused on Ralph Ellison, another author in the “100 Novels Collection” Similar to my examining his novel’s Wikipedia page on last week, Ellison’s personal page provided interesting discoveries as well... | |
| Toni Morrison Today, I decided to concentrate on Toni Morrison... | |
| Zora Neale Hurston Quite naturally, today I extend the discussions of what Wikipedia has taught me about novelist by focusing on Zora Neale Hurston... | |
| Alice Walker I focused on select novels in the “100 Novels Collection” (link expired) to discuss how Wikipedia showcased the books to internet reading audiences. Extending my conversations about Wikipedia, this week I chose to focus on the novelist to better understand what key biographical information readers may gain from the website. Moreover, I was interested in examining how Wikipedia may present the author’s page in concert with his or her work to also influence the ways in which internet audiences interpret African American literature. Today, I chose to start by analyzing Alice Walker and compare her Wikipedia biographical page to her novel page The Color Purple. .. | |
| Native Son Today, I round out my “What Wikipedia has taught me about African American Novels” week by ending with Richard Wright’s Native Son... | |
| Invisible Man Today, I continue the series by focusing on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. .. | |
| Life on the Horizon: Reoccurring Themes in African-American Literature As I stated in a previous blog post, studying trends in the “100 Novels Collection” reveals useful ways for understanding African-American literature. .. | |
| Beloved Today, I continue my exploration of “What I learned from Wikipedia” by exploring Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. .. |