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Afro-futurism; Black Post Modernism; Contemporary period |
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developed during the post reconstruction of the south. Jim Crowe south. Black men or women who openly and willfully defy the structured order of their society; often reflect anger and/or the despair that confronts their African-American communities. They may have a propensity for violence, but often that violence is in response to violence that has been inflicted upon them. |
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Character who uses cunning, guile, and wit to outsmart, overthrow or thwart an opponent |
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figure who acts as an intermediary between the material and the spiritual world |
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Hypersexuality. Sara Baartman. |
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Desexualized, converse to Hottentot Venus; Nurturing; Motherly; Often positioned as overweight and thus unthreatening sexually because she is perceived as unattractive. |
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a young girl trying to impress a man |
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Sort of a counterpoint to “Little Sally Walker” which is targeted toward younger females in order to instill at a young age the idea that women should never be considered inferior to men. |
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Badman; Uncle Tom; happy darky/slave; Sambo |
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19th century literary style pinned mostly by White southerners attempting to reclaim the glory and images of the old South. |
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oldest, perhaps most well known form of American folk song that we have |
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Work songs / Songs of protest |
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deal specifically with our worldly existence |
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Fingering the Jagged Edge |
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o Literature transcendence o Expresses both pain and joys of life through a sacred and secular expression o Ritualistic – literature of purgation/cleansing/release and, ultimately, joy |
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mixed races - critical tabo |
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mixed races - critical taboo |
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(a) Usually a beautiful young woman (b) Tragically victimized by slavery (sexually and physically) (c) Character’s fate was predictable and melodramatic (d) Always vulnerable (e) Always end in suicide |
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Earliest Known work of AA fiction |
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1922 - 1940 music and the arts, centered in an urban space (Harlem) attempting to express value and presence of a black aesthetic and of black arts. |
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Realism/Modernism/Naturalism |
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attempts to reflect life as it really is, not how we imagine it to or desire it to be |
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conscious break from tradition, particularly classical tradition, and the presentation of new forms |
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a look at how the environment affects human beings or mankind. A look at the deterministic affects of the environment on humankind. (important of city on people) |
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1959 - 1970 speaks to black community itself and no other community
Anti-Semitism, misogyny, racism Very strong afro-centric focus. Africa is origin of all the work. |
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i) Receiving a call ii) Embarking on a journey of self discovery iii) Returning with the elixir, boon, tools that lead to individual or communal transformation c) The heroes journey may begin with a false start: |
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The cult of true white womanhood |
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White women are pure, chaste, in need of protection |
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