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Trudier Harris

    Trudier Harris je literární historička, jejíž práce se zaměřuje na hluboké pochopení a kritickou analýzu afroamerické literatury. Její psaní prozkoumává složité společenské a kulturní problémy, které formovaly afroamerickou zkušenost a její literární vyjádření. Harris prostřednictvím svého výzkumu a publikací přispívá k obohacení našeho chápání bohaté a rozmanité krajiny afroamerické literární tradice. Její kritický pohled nabízí cenné vhledy do témat jako je rasa, identita a odpor v americké společnosti.

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    From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
    Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
    Depictions of Home in African American Literature
    From Mammies to Militants. Domestics in Black American Literature
    • A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in the debates over Black men and the violence of racism

      Bigger2024
    • Written by Professor Trudier Harris who explores the differences between Northern and Southern maids and between "mammy" and "militant." She touches on nearly all Black American writers of the twentieth century, but gives extended discussion of works by Charles Chesnutt, Kristin Hunter, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, William Melin Kelley, Alice Childresss, John A. Williams, Douglas Turner Ward, Barbara Woods, Ted Shine, and Ed Bullins.

      From Mammies to Militants. Domestics in Black American Literature2023
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    • Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr's character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture.

      Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature2023
    • This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that influence homespaces in African American literature and analyzes why African American writers often portray troubling and dysfunctional homespaces.

      Depictions of Home in African American Literature2021
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