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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.
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God My intentions of these posts is involves more than the credibility of the site, but instead, I am wondering how Wikipedia shapes the impressions of black writing... | |
| The Color Purple Over the past ten years, Wikipedia has become a major source for how internet users access information on various subjects. Some people question the legitimacy of Wikipedia when comparing the site to more academic sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica. There have even been numerous studies that have examined the credibility of the site. These studies are evidence that for years to come, Wikipedia will certainly be a force to reckon with in terms of scholarship... | |
| The Great Secret: “Passing” in African-American Literature A common trope in African-American literature is “passing”—black characters light-skinned enough to pass for white. Given the long history of white supremacy and racial discrimination in the United States, blacks who were afforded the privilege by virtue of their mixed-race heritage, sometimes employed this practice as a right of power and privilege. .. | |
| Edward P. Jones and Short Stories Similar to Toni Cade Bambara, Edward P. Jones is known primarily as a short story writer and has even expressed a preference for the short story form... | |
| Toni Cade Bambara and Short Stories Her first collection of short stories, Gorilla, My Love, helped to compliment her involvement in the emerging black feminist movement. The majority of the short stories in her first collection are told from the first person point of view of a sassy black female girl. This is significant since it offers an opportunity for readers to interpret the coming of age experiences of young black girls. Below, take a look at some of Bambara’s short stories. .. | |
| Richard Wright and Short Stories Today, I am providing a list of short stories written by Richard Wright... | |
| Zora Neale Hurston and Short Stories Today, I am providing a complete list of short stories written by Zora Neale Hurston... | |
| Charles Chesnutt and Short Stories The “100 Novels Project” (link expired) celebrates the 158-year novel history of African American literature. Using the “100 Novels” (link expired) bibliography, I analyze over 8 dozen assorted factors related to each particular novel as well as the author who wrote it... | |
| Last Lines of 6 Novels Today, I continue my conversation by focusing on the last lines of those novels.” The last lines of the novel are just as telling as the opening lines... | |
| First Lines of 6 Novels Specifically, I want to call attention to how the first lines of each novel set the tone of the events to follow by foreshadowing the identity crisis of each protagonist... |