In the African American Grain

In the African American Grain
Author: John F. Callahan
Publsiher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 025206982X

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"In the African-American Grain is a powerful exploration of the impact of African-American oral storytelling techniques on modern and contemporary fiction. Reading literature in the call-and-response tradition, John F. Callahan shows how African-American writers including Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, and Alice Walker have used the forms and forces of this uniquely participatory discourse to establish not only a potential relationship between storyteller and audience but also a potential for change. In a new preface Callahan comments on how the tradition of call-and-response has continued to develop among African-American writers as well as writers of other backgrounds."

In the African American Grain

In the African American Grain
Author: John F. Callahan
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001
Genre: African Americans in literature
ISBN: OCLC:1256257682

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In the African American Grain

In the African American Grain
Author: John F. Callahan
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1998-02
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0788152823

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"A splendidly researched & written book. The most sophisticated study of black narrative published to date. Offers a persuasive historiographical argument, asserting that the tradition is both male & female with numerous points of contact between the two. The tradition embraces both storywriting & storytelling. While Afro-American literary texts must be discussed as works of art, there is a way to examine their dual concern with art & politics." Consists of a series of richly illustrated & deftly argued interpretations of 20th century African-American prose texts.

In the African American Grain

In the African American Grain
Author: John F. Callahan
Publsiher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: UOM:39015012917459

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Lost Crops of Africa

Lost Crops of Africa
Author: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Board on Science and Technology for International Development
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 1996-02-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780309176897

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Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Yet there is an overlooked food resource in sub-Saharan Africa that has vast potential: native food plants. When experts were asked to nominate African food plants for inclusion in a new book, a list of 30 species grew quickly to hundreds. All in all, Africa has more than 2,000 native grains and fruitsâ€""lost" species due for rediscovery and exploitation. This volume focuses on native cereals, including: African rice, reserved until recently as a luxury food for religious rituals. Finger millet, neglected internationally although it is a staple for millions. Fonio (acha), probably the oldest African cereal and sometimes called "hungry rice." Pearl millet, a widely used grain that still holds great untapped potential. Sorghum, with prospects for making the twenty-first century the "century of sorghum." Tef, in many ways ideal but only now enjoying budding commercial production. Other cultivated and wild grains. This readable and engaging book dispels myths, often based on Western bias, about the nutritional value, flavor, and yield of these African grains. Designed as a tool for economic development, the volume is organized with increasing levels of detail to meet the needs of both lay and professional readers. The authors present the available information on where and how each grain is grown, harvested, and processed, and they list its benefits and limitations as a food source. The authors describe "next steps" for increasing the use of each grain, outline research needs, and address issues in building commercial production. Sidebars cover such interesting points as the potential use of gene mapping and other "high-tech" agricultural techniques on these grains. This fact-filled volume will be of great interest to agricultural experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, and individuals concerned about restoring food production, environmental health, and economic opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa. Selection, Newbridge Garden Book Club

Dispossession

Dispossession
Author: Pete Daniel
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781469602028

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Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.

Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African American Women

Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African American Women
Author: Kimberly Rae Connor
Publsiher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0870499084

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The subsequent achievement of selfhood is then based on the interplay of individual and community identities. Connor suggests that the distinctiveness of African-American women's experiences and writings can transcend their immediate communities and be brought to bear on women's experiences in general, making their individual stories more accessible and meaningful to the whole of humankind.

Bearing Witness to African American Literature

Bearing Witness to African American Literature
Author: Bernard W. Bell
Publsiher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780814337158

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An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.