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Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale.
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Nations can have literatures, as can corporations, philosophical schools or historical periods. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a nation, for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The Hebrew Bible, Persian Shahnama, Thirukural, Beowulf, the Iliad and the Odyssey and the Constitution of the United States, all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:00 -0400
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Pick Of Palin Sets Up Battle For Female Voters
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:41:00 -0400
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McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400
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Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The week before the week before this week’s scheduled gathering of the delegates and their media camp followers in Denver, the nominee-presumptive of the Democratic Party did something that is strongly recommended, and ought to be mandatory, for anyone who has just logged a year and a half’s worth . . .
Abbycon.com's Directory - Advertisements and links to four websites.
Meta Description: [ Registry of magazines - travel magazines, teen magazines, sports magazines, African-American
magazines, Latino magazines, fashion magazines ]
Big Ralph: Reflections of a Black Police Chief - Text from a book about a Black police chief in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Black Literature - An online community for books about, for and by African Americans. Mystery, Romance, Biography.
Meta Description: [ Black Literature.com is your home on the web for books, by, for and about Black or African American people. Black Literature is an online community of readers who enjoy African American books, literature and Authors. We hope to be your home one the web for information, research, reviews and upda... ]
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Books and Other Stuff - Specializing in the sale of first editions, used and rare books, historical documents, and ephemera, artifacts, magazines and newspapers, pictures and photographs by and about African Americans.
de Letrice, Inc.: Where Words Come to Life - Showcases the poetry and prose of award-winning author Denitra Letrice Ross.
Diva Productions, Inc - A site providing African-American children and cookbook information including author and book descriptions.
Meta Description: [ Angela Shelf Medearis, the Kitchen Diva has been cooking up authentic African and African- American style dishes for years and has published four books featuring her unique, delicious approach to ethnic eating. ]
Holloway House Publishing - Publisher of modern African American literature, non-fiction and biographies of famous Black Americans. Modern classics by Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and Odie Hawkins.
Meta Description: [ World's Largerst Publisher of Black Experience Paperbacks - Buy your books directly from the source! ]
Shifting - The Double Lives of Black Women in America - Book about the African American Women's Voices Project offers insight into the psychology of Black women.
Meta Description: [ The book about the African American Women's Voices Project gathered the stories of 400 women who spoke about their triumphs and challenges. Their voices provide powerful and poignant insights into the psychology of Black women. ]
Standing on the Promises - Features Darius Gray and Margaret Young's historical fiction trilogy recounting the migration of Black Mormon pioneers to the West. Includes story background, reviews, and links to related information.
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The Book of American Negro Poetry - James Weldon Johnson's 1922 anthology of poems from the start of the Harlem Renaissance.
Meta Description: [ Jim Zwick's books on Mark Twain and anti-imperialism, web sites, biography, and how to contact him. ]
The Ralph Ellison Project at Jerry Jazz Musician - Site features interviews many prominent Ellison scholars, including Stanley Crouch, John Callahan, Robert O'Meally.
The Zora Neale Hurston / Richard Wright Foundation - The Foundation's mission is to nurture and sustain writers of African descent. Programs and services preserve the legacy and ensure the future of African-American writing.
Meta Description: [ Founded by noted author Marita Golden, the Zora Neale Hurston - Richard Wright Foundation's mission is to develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent. Our programs and services preserve the legacy and ensure the future of Black writing. ]
Tracy's Crystal Staircase of Literature - African American literary reviews and poetry, profiles of authors, and little known African American literary did you know information.
University of Virginia etext Center: African-American - Online texts of literature by or about African-Americans. Some texts restricted to University users only.
Voices From the Gaps - Literature site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.
Wendy Coakley-Thompson - Bio, audio and written excerpts, tour information, and e-mail from the author of Back to Life
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You Never Know - Women in Motion, acting publicist for Roxann Latimer, introduces this book's author and includes a synopsis and excerpts from the book.
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