THE GRIOT - Volume 21 - Spring 2002 - Journal issue

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THE GRIOT (Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.) Volume 21, Spring 2002 presents scholarly articles and reviews focused on African American and broader African/Caribbean cultural discourse. The issue features an academic study on Toni Morrison’s Beloved and its transformation of the African heroic epic, addressing Afrocentric versus Eurocentric reading approaches, community-centered interpretation, and recurring critical themes. It also includes table-of-contents entries for civil rights and educational discourse, Native Americans in eighteenth-century Black writing, poetry, profiles of leadership, and book reviews, plus a contributors section detailing author affiliations.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages72

Reading Time1 h 51 min

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Contents

Toni Morrison's Beloved: Transforming the African Heroic Epic

Black Civil Rights and Rights of Passage: A Search for Meaning in Black Educational Discourse

Native Americans in Eighteenth Century Black Writing

Poetry

Mother Dear: The Motivations of Tina Ansa's Mudear

A History of Black Leadership: St. Mary Parish, 1950-70

Book Reviews

Contributors

THE GRIOT SouthernConference onAfrican AmericanStudies,Inc. .心、 Marygrove College Library8425 W.McNichols Rd.Detroit,MI 48221-2599 Volume 21 President Vice President Editor of THE GRIOT Secretary/Treasurer New Members Coordinator *************XX¥*************×**************** IN ANCIENT AFRICA... ***************************************************************** Spring 2002 THE GRIOT Officers of the Southern Conference onAfrican American Studies,Inc. Tunde AdelekeUniversity of Montana Monte PiliawskyWayne State University Andrew Baskin Berea College Howard JonesPrairie View A and M University Dr.Charles JacksonAugusta State University 'GRIOT'WERE THE COUNSELORS OF KINGS,THEY CONSERVED THE CONSTITUTIONS OFKINGDOMS BY MEMORY ALONE..IT WAS FROM AMONG THE GRIOTS THAT KINGS USEDTO CHOOSE THE TUTORS FOR YOUNG PRINCES…FOR WANT OF ARCHIVES(THEY)RECORDED THE CUSTOMS,TRADITIONS AND GOVERNMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF KINGS…. SUNDIATA,DJIBRIL T.NAINE Inquiries concerning SCAASI membership should be addressed to Howard J.Jones,Secretary/Treasurer,Southern Conference on African American Studies,Inc.,P.O.Box330163,Houston,Texas 77233.The annual membership fee is $35.00.All members ofSCAASI receive the journal free.Single copies are $20.00 each.The library subscription rateis $50.00 per year.The international rate is $60.00. Inquiries concerning THE GRIOT should be addressed to Andrew Baskin,Editor of THEGRIOT,CPO 1715,Berea College,Berea,KY 40404;e·mail:andrew_baskin@berea.edu. THE GRIOT is indexed,abstracted and published in full text in the international BlackPeriodicals Database(IBPD)—URL:http://www.chadwyck.com and by Questia Media,Inc.,an online full-text library—URL:http://www.questia.com.Individual articles are availablefrom UnCover--URL:http://uncweb.carl.org. Copyright 2002 by SCAASI/THE GRIOT.All rights reserved.ISSN0737.0873 Berea College is not responsible for the loss or injury of material submitted and/orpublished.The ideas or material published in the journal do not necessarily represent theviews of the editor,Berea College,or S.C.A.A.S.I. THE GRIOT CONTENTS Page 1 I.Toni Morrison's Beloved:Transforming theAfrican Heroic EpicKathryn Rummell II.Black Civil Rights and Rights of Passage:16 A Search for Meaning in Black Educational DiscourseWinston T.Gittens 26 Ⅲ.Native Americans in Eighteenth Century Black Writing Mary Young IV.Poetry 33343639 A.Rabiul Hasan B.Leonard A.Slade,Jr. C.Larnell Custis Butler D.Brooke Alexandria Leeth V.Mother Dear:The Motivations of Tina Ansa's MudearTara T.Green 53 VI.A History of Black Leadership:St.Mary Parish,1950.70Raymond J.Lockett VI.Book Reviews A.Patrick J.Carroll,Blacks in Colonial Veracruz:61Race,Ethnicity,and Regional Development.Reviewer:Paul David Nelson B.Roland L.Williams Jr.,African American Autobiography,62and the Quest for Freedom.Reviewer:Yolanda Johnson and Charles C.Jackson 1 # CONTRIBUTORS Larnell Custis Butler is an Afrocentric feminist poet who lives in Baltimore,Maryland. Winston T.Gittens is an Assistant Professor of Education at Berea College in Berea,Kentucky. Tara T.Green is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern University in Baton Rouge,Louisiana. Rabiul Hasan teaches English at Southern University in Baton Rouge,Louisiana. Charles C.Jackson teaches history at Augusta State University in Augusta,Georgia. Yolanda Johnson is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln,Nebraska. Brooke Alexandria Leeth is a freshman at Berea College in Berea,Kentucky. Raymond J.Lockett is Chairman and Professor of History at Southern University in BatonRouge,Louisiana. Paul David Nelson is a Professor of History at Berea College in Berea,Kentucky. Purnendu Pattre is a poet,painter,and movie producer from Calcutta in West Bengal,India. Kathryn Rummell is an Assistant Professor of English at California Polytechnic StateUniversity in San Luis Obispo,Califo

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The contents include “Toni Morrison's Beloved: Transforming the African Heroic Epic” by Kathryn Rummell, with discussion of Afrocentric reading approaches versus Eurocentric ones.

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