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 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/9c50539b85b2f15bb731e42acd009324.jpg e1aebed734ffe76f5025a7bbe876bea1 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 47 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter Mosley Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Description An account of the resource Set on a Georgia plantation in 1832 and narrated by protagonist 47, a child born into slavery, we follow 47 as he meets a runaway slave from a nearby plantation, Tall John. Alluding to folklore, Tall John mirrors the legend of High John the Conqueror, a tale of an African spirit who frees African American slaves. Mystery writer Walter Mosley’s first and only work of young adult fiction is a synthesis of African American folklore and science fiction. Throughout the narrative, 47 comes to realize that Tall John does not hail from Africa, but from a distant planet, painting slavery as a universal injustice. 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/8e00879c99b3161daad8c5ec53c53bf3.jpg bd482d94aca2ac0e355b2110011bda95 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 Beloved 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, 1987. Description An account of the resource The pages of Beloved are haunted. Operating through “rememory,” an erasure of linear time, and the ghost of protagonist Sethe’s daughter, slavery is ever-present, a specter in the pages. Recent scholarship has recognized the glimpses of science fiction in Beloved as a rare use of Afrofutursistic themes in Toni Morrison’s work. Morrison’s combination of U.S. history and the speculative creates a neo-slave narrative that blurs the lines of reality. This rare galley proof (or draft copy) of Beloved was the final opportunity for Morrison and her editors to alter the text prior to publication. By donating this innately ephemeral edition to DePaul, Arnold and Jane Grisham have insured that textual critics, scholars, and students will have access to this vital stage in the creation of Morrison’s landmark novel. 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/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/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/68c9a2e6bf675af7df12b3b2abef9839.jpg 0854a628a93db09705005650349f2e1b 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 Juneteenth Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ralph Ellison Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Random House, 1999. Description An account of the resource Best known as the author of the 1952 American classic Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison didn’t see most of his work published during his lifetime. Juneteenth was published as his second novel, following his death in 1994. Originally spanning over 2,000 pages, Ellison’s literary executor John F. Callahan condensed Juneteenth to 368 pages for publication. Although heavily edited, the jazz impulses that appear in Juneteenth also take center stage in Invisible Man, signifying that it was Ellison and not Callahan who crafted a jazz novel. Both novels outline a search for identity that emulates the bebop improvisational soloist in search of individuality within a chorus of community and tradition. 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.