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The
Middle-Atlantic Writers Association
Review Distinguished
scholar and educator Arthur P. Davis--winner of the first MAWA
Distinguished Critic Award--receives the Therman B. O'Daniel
Distinguished Educator Award, October 20, 1988, from
Board Chairman Burney J. Hollis Official
Publication of the Middle Atlantic Writers Association (MAWA)
Volume 16, Numbers 1 and 2 Contents
Negritude and Its Cross Cultural
Influences: The Case of Native African, Caribbean and
African-American Writers
"Wonderful
Dealings": Making African-American Self-hood Speak Through
Colonial Literary Conventions in John Marrant's Conversion and
"Indian Captivity Narrative"
Kenosis of
Biblical Texts: Method and Meaning in Zora Neale Hurston's Their
Eyes Were Watching God
Rewriting the Black
Matriarch: Eva in Toni Morrison's Sula
Singing Beyond Frederick
Douglass: Toni Morrison's Use of Song in Beloved
The Mythic Return:
Reconfiguring Home in Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon
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Contributors
Simone A. James Alexander teaches in the
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn, New York
Rose de Angelis is Assistant Professor of
English at Marist College and the editor of the book series Anthropology
and Literature. Her interests include ethnic and American
literature and gender studies. her work on the cultural
construction of the Italian female in fiction has appeared in Forum
Italicum and Italian Americana. a recent article on the
sociocultural impact of names in Italian-American and
African-American literature was published in a collection entitled
Shades of Black and White. Her collection of essays dealing
with anthropology and literature is forthcoming.
Peter J. Capuano teaches at the Cushing
Academy, a New England boarding school. He is preparing to enter a
doctoral program in English. He has published an article on Henry
David Thoreau in The Oswald Review.
Karen Chandler is Associate professor of
African-American and American literature and film at the
University of Louisville. Her work appears in many scholarly
journals, including African-American Review, The Henry
James Review and Arizona Quarterly. She is currently
completing a manuscript on melodramatic fiction and film and their
audiences and had begun a study of juvenile fiction about slavery
and emancipation. One of her most recent works appears in Afaa
Michael Weaver's anthology of creative non-fiction, These Hands
I Know: African American Writers on Family.
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Burney J. Hollis has been the editor
of the Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Review
since its inauguration in 1982. He is professor of English
and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State
University. A former Fulbright Scholar, Woodrow Wilson
Fellow and NEH Summer Fellow, he earned his bachelor's
degree at Morgan State College and his master's degree and
doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He has
published a variety of essays and books on African
American and American literature, with a focus on writers
of Maryland Eastern Shore, including Walters E. Turpin and
Sarah E. Wright, and on preserving the literary tradition
of African-American colleges and universities.
He also serves on the Board of Directors and the
executive Committee and chairs the Education and Programs
Committee for the Reginald F. Lewis Maryland Museum of
African-American History and Culture soon to be built in downtown
Baltimore. |
D.G. Kehl is Professor of English at
Arizona State University at Tempe, where he teaches courses in
American literature, primarily modern and contemporary. He teaches
upper-level courses on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery
O'Connor and the American novel. He also teaches courses on the
contemporary Southern novel, American literary humor and American
literature and the Holocaust. He has published several articles
and three books, including Poetry and the Visual Arts.
Rose Ure Mezu is Associate Professor of
English at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She
received her B.A. and M.A. from the State University of New York
at Buffalo, a Diplome d'Etudes from the University of Paris
(Sorbonne), and the Ph.D. from the Federal University of
Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is the author of Women in Chains:
Abandonment in Love Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West
African Writers and a book of poems, Song of the Hearth.
She is also editor of a number of collections of essays on
Africana literatures and co-editor of leadership, culture and
racism. A former Commissioner for Social Welfare in the civilian
government of Imo State in Nigeria, Dr. Mezu coordinated for three
years the annual "Writers of African Descent Speak"
Conference at Morgan. |
