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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When, therefore, one speaks of Afro-American literature, one speaks about the literary expressions of the spiritual and emotional experiences of the people whose condition I have just described. Like all great art, literature reflects the historical content of a given age. As a pedagogical tool, it is nothing more than another means of trying to cognize the nature of physical and emotional reality. As such, Afro-American literature is simply the reflector of the life of Afro-American peoples, which shows us the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature? | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...teacher and scholar is to find out what are the particular aesthetic forms which are used to capture the particularity of Afro-American man and woman in literature, through the explication of literary text. At once, therefore, I am concerned about the dialectical interrelationship of form and content, bearing in mind the Hegelian notion of the impenetrable nature of form and content, and the manner in which each penetrates the other...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature? | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...arguments grew tortuous: on whether the Crimson would be contributing to such degradation by running Chan's ad, whether refusing the ad was a paternalistic insult to Radcliffe women's ability to choose intelligently and whether the precepts of free speech vs. censorship apply differently to editorial content and paid advertisement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All the Nudes Fit to Print | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...plot of this New York City gang movie is almost nonexistent, and what does exist is tedious. The large cast is wooden; the language is flat; the humor is childish, and the content would not engage the imagination of a lesser insect. Still, it is not so easy to consign The Warriors to the junk heap. Though The Warriors is trash, it is handsome trash. It excites the eyes even as it numbs the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead End | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Jackson Bate '39, the chairman of that subcommittee, yesterday gave the standing committee additional information on the content and requirements of those courses...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Standing Committee Reviews History Courses | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

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