2 10 27 https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/f359e501640a65090d7aeddecbb56ac9.jpg 9aa3e8906db08c7c06695bcbf92a0dd1 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 Kindred Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Octavia Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Description An account of the resource Recognized as the first black woman to break into the genre, Octavia Butler forever altered the white, male-centric world of science fiction. Kindred follows Dana Franklin as she is thrown back and forth between 1976 and the nineteenth century amongst her ancestors. Snatched by time, Dana’s journey echoes the experiences of kidnapping during the slave trade. Time travel, a standard convention of the science fiction genre, is redefined by Butler as she weaves a narrative that is neither nostalgic nor scientific, but a painful exploration of this nation’s past. Reimagining science fiction with the inclusion of race and a postmodern slave narrative, Kindred is quintessentially Afrofuturistic. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/014f6ea9923d3990a34ece50f4cfdf23.jpg a53011f83d1e5d9a681932ef01e4e4ee 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 Mama Day Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gloria Naylor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. Description An account of the resource Fusing magical realism, folklore, and elements of speculative fiction, Mama Day is a story about the generations of African Americans born post-emancipation. Set in the Sea Islands off of the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, Mama Day pulls readers into an enclave of black life where African traditions have largely been preserved. Torn between life in New York City with her lover George Andrews and the fictional community of Willow Springs in the Sea Islands, protagonist Ophelia “Cocoa” Day can never truly leave Willow Springs or her aunt, Mama Day. Gloria Naylor’s melding of African American history and the magical, almost supernatural elements of Mama Day’s traditions is a historical wandering into the world of Afrofuturism. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/bf5aadad8471ed9104ef492be31d045b.jpg 8e3bdb40f448caf95d1de241c19d19b6 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 Maud Martha: A Novel Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gwendolyn Brooks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1953. Description An account of the resource The only novella published by famed Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha is a loosely autobiographical narrative of a black woman growing up in Bronzeville, the hub of the Chicago Renaissance. On the streets of Bronzeville, Brooks interacted with both Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, influential echoes of the Harlem Renaissance. As African American Studies scholar Dr. Barbara Christian highlights, Maud Martha challenged stereotypes and tropes of black womanhood traditionally published in literature, presenting “for the first time a black woman not as a mammy, wench, mulatto or downtrodden heroine, but as an ordinary human being in all the wonder of her complexity.” Unfortunately, Maud Martha has historically remained out of print and lesser known in comparison to Brooks’s poetry collections. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/788bf0f60e7c9836d658477fb6f71955.jpg 5b9709352bb5a79dc944eff5dd2c10ab 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 My Soul to Keep Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tananarive Due Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Harpers Collins Publishers, 1997. Description An account of the resource Tananarive Due’s My Soul to Keep, rewrites the traditional vampire narrative, shifting away from a pale creature of the night to an African immortal scholar with recuperative abilities and an unending quest for knowledge. Following protagonist Jessica Jacobs-Wolde, an African American journalist unknowingly married to the immortal David Wolde, Jessica’s investigative skills lead her to discover the identity of her husband and the truth about the healing powers of his blood. David’s life, spanning over five hundred years, mirrors the trajectory of African American history; forced migration from Africa, captured into slavery, and lynched in the Jim Crow South. Due’s narrative is an opportunity for readers to understand the immense scope of historic traumas and triumphs through one set of eyes, a feat only possible in fiction. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/a86043b07383071d4d166c7f79a59fd9.jpg f20a7b86232179e59914c51de61d0c17 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 Native Son Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard Wright Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1940 Description An account of the resource Set on the south side of Chicago in the 1930s and written from post-renaissance Harlem, Richard Wright’s Native Son presents the reality of racism in the U.S. during the Jim Crow era. Following protagonist Bigger Thomas through an impoverished life in Chicago, Native Son wrestles with both the systematic and psychological effects of racism on African Americans in urban spaces. The raw and graphic narrative Wright unfolds expresses the reality of American racism. Native Son was one of the first literary texts to fully display black rage and a detailed experience of black life in an urban center. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/405fcc6ab73cfbf1c8f9d7060bb2881e.jpg 89f69332aa8f0935c0cfbd35a850663b 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 Neon Vernacular Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yusef Komunyakaa Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993. Description An account of the resource Widely known for jazz aesthetic and musical rhythms in his poetry, Yusef Komunyakaa expands his jazz style in Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems. Komunyakaa crafted a poetry collection that moves beyond familiar jazz impulses into a new translation of jazz in literature. Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa’s poems underscore black life in the South. Neon Vernacular wrestles with the experiences living underneath systemic racism and celebrates black resiliency. Komunyakaa received the Pulitzer Prize for his foray into improvisation with the poems in Neon Vernacular. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/bbdc47068c212b33dbbd5a3aa9aa769f.jpg 7cd7b126aa6c8fa7059b347b724244b3 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 Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit me Well Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maya Angelou Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ney York: Random House, 1975. Description An account of the resource Maya Angelou, a famed author, playwright, activist, and poet is best known for her seven autobiographies. Scholars and critics have favored the autobiographies leaving her poetry largely unexamined. Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well was the second volume of poetry Angelou published. The very few pieces of criticism that address this work accuse the poems of being superficial and simple addressing only love and loss. The criticism of Angelou’s poetry is common because her poetry must stand against the celebrated prose of her autobiographies. Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well is a testament to Angelou’s ability to write across stylistic genres. 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. 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/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.