1 10 27 https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/f676b75d63da2e2e98fa0a0fc6a90c0f.jpg eb6237f8eef5e11ea8f51fee48d31364 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 Dreams from My Father Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barack Obama Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Times Books, 1995. Description An account of the resource Dreams from My Father recounts the earliest portion of President Barack Obama’s life from his childhood until he entered Harvard Law School. The memoir, praised by many authors and critics for its prose, captures Obama’s voice in his search for self-understanding. Published at the start of his political career prior to running for Illinois Senate, Dreams from My Father is a unique and deeply personal political autobiography. Rather than focusing on Obama’s political philosophy and aspirations, the memoir explores his formative journey to understand his own racial identity inherited from an absent father. This first edition copy of Dreams from My Father was signed in the White House by President Barack Obama for Arnold Grisham. 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/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/500061e89e7de65f7d8af9a083fa2a1c.jpg 977f0a5d101a207801fc21e1a19c60f5 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 Color Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Countee Cullen Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925. Description An account of the resource No discussion of the Harlem Renaissance is complete without poet Countee Cullen. Writing and publishing at the height of the renaissance, Cullen was a key figure in this literary movement. At the age of twenty-two, Cullen published Color, his very first collection of poetry. Within the context of the 1920s, Cullen’s choice to publish Color through the mainstream publisher Harper & Brothers underscores Cullen’s desire to gain recognition as simply a poet and not with the caveat of being a black poet. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/8abf1e1810c7e73bdef88bb81d78913f.jpg 79742181351ed6f6ee6a03354058046e 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 Blues Dancing Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Diane McKinney-Whetstone Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999. Description An account of the resource A modern blues novel, Blues Dancing captures the emotional aesthetic of the blues. Diane McKinney-Whetstone captures the emotional toll of love and relationships through the life of Verdi Mae. In a narrative that jumps between the 1970s and the 1990s, Verdi Mae is entangled in love, drugs, and the lives of two different men. Reverberating with the lyrical blues themes of desire and dependency, McKinney-Whetstone’s novel shifts the narrative from a traditional working class blues to that of a black middle class blues that Verdi Mae finds herself trapped within. Blues Dancing emphasizes that jazz aesthetics are not simply historical aspects of African American literature, but rather a continuing prose tradition. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/ce18db7bf0dd2761073cc599657d687d.jpg 844af68d9d78657d252f7149cc7fe8a4 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 American Daughter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Era Bell Thompson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Description An account of the resource Journalist Era Bell Thompson, a lasting influence on the Chicago Renaissance, has not been widely recognized for her autobiographical work. In 1947 Thompson was one of the first editors of Ebony magazine, working for the publication until her death in 1986. American Daughter, Thompson’s autobiography written in Chicago, is a meditation on being a black woman in both black urban spaces and the white rural spaces of her childhood in North Dakota. Thompson utilizes the landscape and geography as metaphor for a form of double-consciousness between urban center and the white western frontier of North Dakota. As literary scholar Dr. Joanne M. Braxton writes, Thompson’s autobiography reveals “a growing sense of displacement that is geographic, cultural, and social.” 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/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/92454247826e5bcf1bfde132c7c7fa6e.jpg 424a67966ef0ed804ed86f9dd49c41b3 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 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.