Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who has himself turned to fiction in his recent work on civil rights law, recalls the discussion between Gates and Huggins: "Basically, they said that the great thrust of Afro-American history was to correct the record--to show that Black folk played a very important role," Bell says. "But the historical role tended to be a correction of the record, while the literary people can provide a continuous range of views about the record...
...graduate student at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, Rampersad says his experience in academia has been typical of his generation. While at Harvard, Rampersad for the first time encountered Black literature in the classroom--as a section leader for Roger Rosenblatt's course on Afro-American fiction, which was the first course of its kind taught at Harvard...
Rampersad says that the large extent to which undergraduates were involved in the discipline's formation has affected the future course of Afro-American studies. For example, Rosenblatt's course on Black fiction was brought into the curriculum as a result of lobbying efforts by students, he says...
Those who like their fiction accompanied by a good deal of bookish impedimenta will find almost more than they can handle in Dictionary of the Khazars. Not only does it pretend to reassemble and update its imaginary 1691 predecessor, but it also comes in two forms, a male and a female edition, which differ in only one passage of just under 15 lines of text. Most astonishingly, this novel, translated from the original Serbo-Croatian, has ) become a best seller in France and Germany; its Yugoslav author, Milorad Pavic, 59, a professor of literary history at the University of Belgrade...
...gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed. You know, looking at Dosso Dossi's The Three Ages of Man, about 1520-25, that its vision of harmonies between childhood, vigorous youth and sagacious age in the midst of a deliciously mellow nature is a fiction, but it has still not lost its power to console...