1 10 27 https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/4b54007024843910416e23ae05eb0a7b.jpg 30ce1f7081a1b4824ae03998bfc013ba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bookcase background images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Waiting for an Angel Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helon Habila Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Description An account of the resource Helon Habila’s debut novel Waiting for an Angel is a literary endeavor to capture a sliver of Nigeria’s postcolonial history. Following a journalist and poet living in the country following the colonial period, Habila utilizes historical moments to anchor the novel in the era of military dictatorships during the 1980s and 1990s. Separated into seven stories via multiple narrators and absent of linear chronology, Habila’s novel creates a sense of placelessness, signifying the struggle of living in a decolonizing society. Waiting for an Angel illuminates the experiences of Nigerians caught in oppressive military regimes, a postcolonial echo of colonial power structures. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/8ad2caf32dbbf2e3b2bf473e376efef0.jpg 0af8d679e59acb6b62ca0a267389ed4d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Uncle Tom's Cabin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harriet Beecher Stowe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1895. Description An account of the resource Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antebellum novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was originally published as a serial piece in The National Era newspaper in 1851 and 1852. Eventually published as a novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin has a controversial historical legacy. Heralded by many as the novel that aided the abolitionist movement by calling attention to the atrocities of slavery, Uncle Tom’s Cabin simultaneously cemented racist stereotypes in American memory. Nevertheless, Stowe’s novel was one of the most popular novels of the 19th century. This 1895 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the oldest book in the Arnold and Jane Grisham Collection. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/78a95ccaa5d386028548269dc8631be2.jpg 082c9e6a7395a01fc7065d54c0407527 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas and Beulah Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rita Dove Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986. Description An account of the resource Anchoring her poetic narrative in the midst of the Great Migration, Rita Dove knits together the story of Thomas and Beulah, a black couple living in the industrial and urban Midwest. Divided into two halves, the first twenty-three poems in the section “Mandolin” are Thomas’s while the other twenty-one in the section “Canary in Bloom” are Beulah’s. The two halves come together in a poetry collection that tells the story of a migrant generation from two gendered vantage points. Dove was the second black woman to be named United States Poet Laureate, after Gwendolyn Brooks. Thomas and Beulah garnered her the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/2ad14c9c32b6ecfbf1ac3a3e4eab69c9.jpg 1bdbc04783653097478c47f2f15a8638 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource There Was a Country Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chinua Achebe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. Description An account of the resource Chinua Achebe, famed author of Things Fall Apart, is recognized as a key author of postcolonial fiction. In his memoir There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Achebe addresses his personal experiences living in Nigeria during decolonization. For Achebe, a writer adamantly committed to utilizing literature as a way to engage socio-political currents and serve as historical testimony, There Was a Country provides his own historical record of colonial and postcolonial Nigeria. What Achebe highlights in his autobiographical exploration of Nigeria’s history is the tenuous connection between the colonized and the colonizer and the necessity of knowing history. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/bd0c48d211c5ed464d674a1c9cf62c70.jpg bf13342384a505c1b7cde687d3dcb4e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Famished Road Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ben Okri Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Doubleday, 1992. Description An account of the resource Fluctuating between magical and literary realism, Ben Okri’s The Famished Road is a novel that shifts between African folklore traditions and the literary styles of the West. Set in an unnamed postcolonial Nigerian city, The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child from Yoruban folklore, as he is pulled between the mortal world with his family and the spirit world that is calling to him. Okri’s blend of the magical and the realistic reveals the friction between the legacy of colonialism and the African traditions within a postcolonial country. This blurring of realities is exemplified in the passage above that seamlessly melds both worlds Azaro walks between. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/74dd2a2565d77d1cd9199ac8dbb9b248.jpg 497c7074e10f29960e559a911e5f6d1f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Weldon Johnson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1927. Description An account of the resource Originally published anonymously in 1912, this 1927 edition of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man was the first to credit James Weldon Johnson as the author. Written during the nascent period of the Harlem Renaissance, the fictional autobiography is narrated by the “Ex-Coloured Man.” Reflecting on a life between and within two racial identities, the narrator recounts his life as a black ragtime musician to his life spent passing as a white businessman. The narrator’s shift to a white identity was instigated by his witnessing of a violent lynching in the Reconstruction era South. Johnson’s detailed description of a lynching, although fictional, was one of the first novels to provide social commentary on systemic racism and mob law in the post-emancipation South. This is the first title that Arnold Grisham collected, sparking his interest in book collecting. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/aa9ba3cf4783e6931a2ae22657a065eb.jpg c82d9aca6275b7a6e01e03af63a175d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tar Baby Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Toni Morrison Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Description An account of the resource Jazz reverberates across the pages of Toni Morrison’s novels. Taking the techniques from this black musical tradition, rhythms, riffs, solos, and cadences emerge in Morrison’s prose as literary devices. The prose in Tar Baby is no exception. Caught in a tumultuous love affair, Jadine and Son’s entire relationship emulates a call and response. In jazz, a call and response is when musicians trade bars and riffs, repeating and building one on top of the other – a question and answer. This excerpt of Tar Baby exemplifies call and response through dialogue between Jadine and Son, trading sentences and building off one another, the punctuation setting a rhythmic pace. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/d2919857338e03aeb602474340bca40f.jpg 66d39fa4a435f21b8d80aa7b514119f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Simple Speaks His Mind Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Langston Hughes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1950. Description An account of the resource On February 13, 1943, the fictional character Jesse B. Semple debuted as the protagonist of a new weekly column written by Langston Hughes. Known as Simple, Hughes crafted him to be emblematic of working class African Americans in the mid-20th century. Set in Harlem and published within the pages of the Chicago Defender, Simple stories blended the literary worlds of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances. Simple Speaks His Mind is the first collected volume of Simple stories, which launched Hughes into literary prominence. Hughes employed the character of Simple to vocalize the everyday experiences of encountering racism in the U.S. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/6f158c5d12979c4406b3c843ed23ddf5.jpg 023cc6c54e542d6c007035ea24fc8ae3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems of Cabin and Field Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paul Laurence Dunbar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Description An account of the resource Categorized as Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “dialect poems,” The Poems of Cabin and Field were written in an imagined black vernacular. Paired with staged photographs of plantation life, the poetry collection was one of the first publications to project a stylized image of black life at the turn of the 20th century. The photographs were taken by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, a group of amateur African American photographers from the small school in Hampton, Virginia. The Poems of Cabin and Field represents Dunbar’s earliest works that were all written in a fictionalized vernacular. Dunbar’s later poetry received critical acclaim after he discontinued his use of dialectic writing.