African American literature

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American literature Black literature ethnic literature literary tradition

African American literature is a body of writing by Black Americans that explores their historical experiences, cultural identity, and struggles against racism and oppression, often blending oral traditions, political critique, and artistic innovation.

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Label Occurrences
African-American literature 41
African American literature canonical 22
African American literary tradition 1

Statements (71)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American literature ⓘ
Black literature ⓘ
ethnic literature ⓘ
literary tradition ⓘ
contributesTo American cultural history ⓘ
critical race discourse ⓘ
postcolonial theory ⓘ
developedInCountry United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
emergedSignificantlyDuring American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Harlem Renaissance ⓘ
focusesOn African American history ⓘ
Black cultural identity ⓘ
civil rights struggle ⓘ
experiences of African Americans ⓘ
racism in the United States ⓘ
segregation in the United States ⓘ
slavery in the United States ⓘ
hasHistoricalRootIn abolitionist writing ⓘ
slave narratives ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor Alice Walker ⓘ
August Wilson ⓘ
Frederick Douglass ⓘ
Harriet Jacobs ⓘ
James Baldwin ⓘ
Langston Hughes ⓘ
Maya Angelou ⓘ
Ralph Ellison ⓘ
Richard Wright ⓘ
Toni Morrison ⓘ
W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ
Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ
hasNotableMovement Black Arts Movement ⓘ
Harlem Renaissance ⓘ
hasPrimaryLanguage English ⓘ
hasTheme double consciousness ⓘ
family and community ⓘ
gender and race intersectionality ⓘ
migration and displacement ⓘ
racial identity ⓘ
resistance to oppression ⓘ
search for freedom ⓘ
includesGenre autobiography ⓘ
drama ⓘ
essays ⓘ
hip hop literature ⓘ
novels ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
sermon literature ⓘ
short stories ⓘ
slave narrative ⓘ
spoken word poetry ⓘ
incorporates African American oral tradition ⓘ
call-and-response patterns ⓘ
folktales ⓘ
sermons ⓘ
spirituals ⓘ
isConcernedWith political critique of racism ⓘ
representation of Black life in America ⓘ
social justice ⓘ
isInfluencedBy African diaspora culture ⓘ
Black church traditions ⓘ
blues ⓘ
hip hop culture ⓘ
jazz ⓘ
isStudiedIn African American studies ⓘ
English literature programs ⓘ
usesTechnique code-switching ⓘ
magic realism ⓘ
nonlinear narrative ⓘ
stream of consciousness ⓘ
vernacular speech ⓘ

Referenced by (70)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave → influenced → African American literature ⓘ
Harlem Renaissance → influenced → African American literature ⓘ
Jazz → genre → African American literature ⓘ
subject surface form: Jazz (novel)
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Wallace Thurman → genre → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison → movement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African American literature movement
Not Without Laughter → hasSubject → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African Americans—Kansas—Fiction
Giovanni's Room → hasLiteraryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
The Fire Next Time → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Nobody Knows My Name → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Baby Suggs → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
No Name in the Street → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Richard Wright → movement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Richard Wright → influenced → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
African-American history → includesTheme → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Claudia Rankine → movement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Frederick Douglass → influenced → African American literature ⓘ
Frank Money → literaryGenreContext → African American literature ⓘ
Guitar Bains → partOf → African American literature ⓘ
Dorcas → appearsInGenre → African American literature ⓘ
Cholly Breedlove → appearsInGenre → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Arthur B. Spingarn → genreOfCollectedWorks → African American literature ⓘ
Margaret Street → appearsInLiteraryTradition → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
The Souls of Black Folk → influenced → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Fenton Johnson → genre → African American literature ⓘ
A'Lelia Walker → supported → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American writers
Revolutionary Suicide → genre → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
"Kabnis" → genre → African American literature ⓘ
subject surface form: Kabnis
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Willard Motley → hasInfluenced → African American literature ⓘ
Porgy (novel) → genre → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Nellallitea Larsen → fieldOfWork → African American literature ⓘ
subject surface form: Nella Larsen
this entity surface form: African-American literature
The Wrong Man → literarySubgenre → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Part One: Folk Tales → includedIn → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African American literature canon
Part Two: Hoodoo → genre → African American literature ⓘ
Meridian → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
"Dream Variations" → associatedWith → African American literature ⓘ
subject surface form: Dream Variations
this entity surface form: African-American literature
If We Must Die → influence → African American literature ⓘ
On These I Stand → associatedWith → African American literature ⓘ
Rudolph Fisher → fieldOfWork → African American literature ⓘ
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature → subject → African American literature ⓘ
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Annie Allen → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Maud Martha → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature movement
Ishmael → movement → African American literature ⓘ
subject surface form: Ishmael Reed
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Flight to Canada → hasLiteraryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Shrovetide in Old New Orleans → literaryMovement → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance → mainSubject → African American literature ⓘ
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature → academicDiscipline → African American literature ⓘ
Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic → mainSubject → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African American poetics
Native Son → genre → African American literature ⓘ
this entity surface form: African-American literature
Jesse B. Semple → associatedWith → African American literature ⓘ