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Afrofuturist literature investigates questions of Black intellectual production, materiality, and intellectual ownership, while reimagining the potential futures of individuals within the Afrodiaspora. [6] The emerging genre of Afrofuturist literature is influenced by two strands, Afro-pessimism and Black optimism. [7]
Youngest person and first Black American to be the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. [4] [5] Sharon Draper (born 1948) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [6] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [7]
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
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Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.
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The Cybils Awards are founded by children's book and young adult literature bloggers to honor books with literary merit and kid appeal. 2007. The Brown Bookshelf blog, to promote African American picture books, Middle Grade and Young Adult novels written and illustrated by African Americans.
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is a 1940 autobiographical text by W. E. B. Du Bois that examines his life and family history in the context of contemporaneous developments in race relations.