Paul Tewkesbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 1716988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Tewkesbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Tewkesbury |
| SIGNATURE | TEWKESBURY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marita Golden’s And Do Remember Me as Womanist Homage to Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement
A Time to Break Literary Silence
A Time to Break Literary Silence:Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam in Anthony Grooms's Bombingham Paul Tewkesbury (bio) Anthony Grooms's 2001 novel Bombingham opens in 1970 with eighteen-year-old Walter Burke, an African American solider serving in Vietnam, lying in a rice paddy outside the village of Thoybu. After watching his fellow soldier Haywood Jackson die by enemy fire, Walter must fulfill a promise he made to his friend: …
Sex, Violence, and Suffering
In her 2001 essay “The Power of Martyrdom: The Incorporation of Martin Luther King Jr. and His Philosophy into African American Literature,” Trudier Harris traces the ways in which African American writers have interrogated the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., in poetry, drama, and fiction since his death in 1968. Harris refers to the period immediately following King’s assassination as the “Retaliatory Literary Movement.” At that time, Nikki G…
Keeping the Dream Alive
This essay examines the ways in which Alice Walker’s 1976 novel Meridian is shaped by Martin Luther King Jr.’s notion of the Beloved Community, a religious and social ideal that epitomized the goals of the 1960s civil rights movement. Previous studies of Meridian focus on connections between the novel and the movement, but they do not explore the connections between the novel’s spiritual dimensions and King’s religious philosophy. As Walker pays …
Keeping the Dream Alive
This essay examines the ways in which Alice Walker’s 1976 novel Meridian is shaped by Martin Luther King Jr.’s notion of the Beloved Community, a religious and social ideal that epitomized the goals of the 1960s civil rights movement. Previous studies of Meridian focus on connections between the novel and the movement, but they do not explore the connections between the novel’s spiritual dimensions and King’s religious philosophy. As Walker pays …
Keeping the Dream Alive
This essay examines the ways in which Alice Walker’s 1976 novel Meridian is shaped by Martin Luther King Jr.’s notion of the Beloved Community, a religious and social ideal that epitomized the goals of the 1960s civil rights movement. Previous studies of Meridian focus on connections between the novel and the movement, but they do not explore the connections between the novel’s spiritual dimensions and King’s religious philosophy. As Walker pays …
Sex, Violence, and Suffering
In her 2001 essay “The Power of Martyrdom: The Incorporation of Martin Luther King Jr. and His Philosophy into African American Literature,” Trudier Harris traces the ways in which African American writers have interrogated the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., in poetry, drama, and fiction since his death in 1968. Harris refers to the period immediately following King’s assassination as the “Retaliatory Literary Movement.” At that time, Nikki G…
A Time to Break Literary Silence
A Time to Break Literary Silence:Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam in Anthony Grooms's Bombingham Paul Tewkesbury (bio) Anthony Grooms's 2001 novel Bombingham opens in 1970 with eighteen-year-old Walter Burke, an African American solider serving in Vietnam, lying in a rice paddy outside the village of Thoybu. After watching his fellow soldier Haywood Jackson die by enemy fire, Walter must fulfill a promise he made to his friend: …
Marita Golden’s And Do Remember Me as Womanist Homage to Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Art (4 works) · Civil rights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works)