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Articles and thematic issues devoted to creative works by and critical studies of black writers in the Americas and Africa; studies of life and culture in the black world and visual art.
This article examines the representation of beauty and femininity in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun to elucidate how Angela Murray inhabits and revises key aspects of early twentieth-century pragmatist thought, particularly those found in the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and John Dewey. By choosing to pass as a white woman, Angela demonstrates a pragmatist desire to break free of routinized patterns of experience and to occupy diverse communities. At the same time, by seeking experiences outside the social parameters of African American identity, Angela actually ends up reconstructing and strengthening her self-conception as an African American woman
The article presents a critical analysis of the poetry of Jamaican poet Claude McKay. The aesthetic pose of McKay overlaps with the pose of a member of the colonial constabulary, policing his own black community under the orders of the colonial governor. The early poetry of McKay has not received the attention given to works of high modernism, because of the unfamiliarity of its cultural and historical context.
