Kenny J Williams

Biographic Data

ID3625837
NAMEKenny J Williams
GIVEN NAMESKenny J
FAMILY NAMEWilliams
SIGNATUREWILLIAMS K J
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
H-INDEX0

  • A reconsideration of Afro-American literature

    Open AccessKenny J WilliamsARTICLEAcademic Questions1993

    My great-grandfather was brought to this country a slave from Africa. My grandfather obtained his own freedom. My father never wore the yoke. He rendered valuable service to his country in the war of our Revolution; and I,, though then a boy, was a drummer in that war....I have since lived and labored in a useful employment, have acquired property, and have paid taxes in this city...have brought up and educated a family.... Yet some ingenious gen…

  • Caste and class in a university town

    Open AccessKenny J Williams, Carol IannoneARTICLEAcademic Questions1991

  • A Storyteller and a City

    Stephen Enniss, Kenny J WilliamsARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1990

  • The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume II, 1941-1967

    Kenny J Williams, Arnold RampersadARTICLEAmerican Literature1990

  • A Storyteller and a City

    Hilbert H Campbell, Kenny J WilliamsARTICLEAmerican Literature1989

  • The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume I

    Kenny J Williams, Arnold RampersadARTICLEAmerican Literature1987

  • The World of Richard Wright

    Kenny J Williams, Kenny Williams et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1987

  • An Invisible Partnership and an Unlikely Relationship

    Kenny J WilliamsARTICLECallaloo1987

    As they try to determine both the development and the nature of twentieth-century American poetry, historians and theorists often cite as significant such diverse considerations as Walt Whitman's influence, French literary innovations, Ezra Pound's insistence that the poet's role be reinterpreted, or the work of the little magazines to make poetry more accessible to the general public. Some credit Harriet Monroe (1860-1936) and her Poetry: A Maga…

  • The Life and Art of Elinor Wylie

    Kenny J Williams, Judith Farr et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1985

  • The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt by William L. Andrews

    Kenny J WilliamsARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1982

    Book Review| April 01 1982 The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt by William L. Andrews The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt. By Andrews, William L.. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii, 277. $20.00 Kenny J. Williams Kenny J. Williams Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (2): 240–242. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-81-2-240 Cite Icon Cit…

  • Prairie Voices

    Neda M Westlake, Kenny J WilliamsARTICLEAmerican Literature1981

  • Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones

    Kenny J Williams, Werner SollorsARTICLEAmerican Literature1980

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    Kenny J WilliamsARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1979

    Book Review| October 01 1979 Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography by Robert Hemenway Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. By Hemenway, Robert. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. Pp. xxiii, 359. $15.00. Kenny J. Williams Kenny J. Williams Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (4): 526–528. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-78-4-526 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…

  • Black Culture and Black Consciousness

    Kenny J WilliamsARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1978

    Book Review| October 01 1978 Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom. By Levine, Lawrence W.. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 445. $15.95. Kenny J. Williams Kenny J. Williams Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Qua…

  • Baraka

    Kenny J Williams, Kimberly W Benston et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1977

  • In the City of Men

    Heinz Dieterich, H R Dieterich et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1975

    Journal Article In the City of Men: Another Story of Chicago. By Kenny J. Williams. (Nashville, Tenn.: Townsend, 1974. xvii + 483 pp. Illustration, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access H. R. Dieterich H. R. Dieterich University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 432–433, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903324 Published: 01 Sept…

  • They Also Spoke

    W Edward Farrison, Kenny J WilliamsARTICLEAmerican Literature1971

  • They Also Spoke

    Open AccessGordon T Bratz, Kenny J WilliamsARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1971