Keith Byerman

Biographic Data

ID988822
NAMEKeith Byerman
GIVEN NAMESKeith
FAMILY NAMEByerman
SIGNATUREBYERMAN K
AFFILIATIONSIndiana State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • King Comus by William Demby

    Keith ByermanARTICLEAfrican American Review2019

    Reviewed by: King Comus by William Demby Keith Byerman William Demby. King Comus. Ed. Melanie Masterson Sherazi. Berkeley: Ishmael Reed, 2017. 159 pp. $30.00. The publication of William Demby's last novel, King Comus, reveals several crucial facts about the current state of publishing, of black literature, and of the place of experimentation in the African American literary tradition. The relatively short work (150 pages) languished for years, al…

  • Talking Back

    Open AccessKeith ByermanARTICLEReligions2019References: 2

    This essay examines the means by which African American poet Phillis Wheatley uses her evangelical Christianity to engage issues of race in revolutionary America. In her poetry and other writings, she addresses and even instructs white men of privilege on the spiritual equality of people of African descent

  • Beyond Respectability

    Keith ByermanARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    The thinking of African American women has recently become a significant topic of academic study, often in the context of noteworthy male figures such as Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin. Much of this new scholarship came in response to the work of an earlier generation (including Hazel Carby and Darlene Clark Hine) on what became known as race women. Beyond Respectability is the latest of these studies, focusing on the way…

  • Angularity

    Keith ByermanARTICLEAfrican American Review2017

    1013 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 1013-1024© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Byerman_Byerman 2/14/2018 5:43 PM Page 1013 1014 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Byerman_Byerman 2/14/2018 5:43 PM Page 1014 KEITH BYERMAN WITH LEON FORREST 1015 Byerman_Byerman 2/14/2018 5:43 PM Page 1015 1016 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Byerman_Byerman 2/14/2018 5:43 PM Page 1016 KEITH BYERMAN WITH LEON FORREST 1017 Byerman_Byerman 2/1…

  • The Art and Life of Clarence Major

    Keith Byerman, Keith E ByermanBOOKArt and Life of Clarence Major2012

  • The Cambridge History of African American Literature

    Open AccessJerry W Ward, F Irele et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of African…2011

    The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding…

  • The Indignant Generation

    Keith ByermanARTICLEJournal of American History2011Cited by: 3

    Journal Article The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960 Get access The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960. By Lawrence P. Jackson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xvi, 579 pp. $35.00, ISBN978-0-691-14135-0.) Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana [email protected] Search for other …

  • National History and the World of Nations

    Keith ByermanARTICLEAmerican Literature2010

    Book Review| December 01 2010 National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States; Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920 Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 835–837. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…

  • The Man Who Adores the Negro

    Keith ByermanARTICLEAmerican Literature2009

  • Disrupting the Discourse

    Keith Byerman, Philosophia Africana et al.ARTICLEPhilosophia Africana2004

  • The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel

    Open AccessChristopher Mulvey, M Giulia Fabi et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to the…2004

    The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical…

  • The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison

    Keith Byerman, Keith E Byerman et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2001

  • Slippery Characters

    Keith ByermanARTICLEAmerican Literature2001

    Book Review| December 01 2001 Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities By Laura Browder. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2000. xii,312 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 889–890. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-889 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permis…

  • Angularity

    Leon Forrest, Keith ByermanARTICLEAfrican American Review1999

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought

    Keith Byerman, Adolph Reed et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line. By Adolph L. Reed Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 282 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505174-2.) Get access Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1128–1129, https://d…

  • The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

    Keith Byerman, Keith E Byerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. By George Hutchinson Cambridge and Women of the Harlem Renaissance. By Cheryl A. Wall Bloomington Get access Keith E. Byerman Keith E. Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1449–1450, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953006 Published: 01 Marc…

  • Dark Voices

    Keith Byerman, Shamoon ZamirARTICLEJournal of American History1996Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888–1903. By Shamoon Zamir. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xiv, 294 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-226-97852-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-97853-2.) Get access Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, …

  • Seizing the Word

    John B Kirby, Keith Byerman et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

  • Fatheralong

    Keith Byerman, John Edgar WidemanARTICLEAfrican American Review1996

  • Seizing the Word

    Houston A Baker, Keith Byerman et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995

    Offers a reading of the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of 19th- and 20th-century America. As an historian, journalist, novelist, poet and social and literary critic, Du Bois profoundly influenced our understanding of the African-American experience

  • Livin' the Blues

    Keith Byerman, Keith E Byerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Livin ' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. By Frank Marshall Davis. Ed. by John Edgar Tidwell. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xxxii, 373 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-299-13500-4.) Get access Keith E. Byerman Keith E. Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages …

  • Moorings and Metaphors

    Keith Byerman, Keith E Byerman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1993

    Moorings Metaphors is one of the first studies to examine the ways that cultural tradition is reflected in the language figures of black women's writing. In a discussion that includes the works of Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ntozake Shange, Buchi Emecheta, Octavia Butler, Efua Sutherland, Gayl Jones, with a particular focus on Toni Morrison's Beloved and Flora Nwapa's Efuru, Holloway follows the narrative structures, language, fig…

  • Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance

    Keith Byerman, Keith E Byerman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1990

  • Desire and Alice Walker

    Keith ByermanARTICLECallaloo1989

  • Alice Walker

    Lillie P Howard, Erma Davis Banks et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1988

    Lillie P. Howard; Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968–1986. Erma Davis Banks and Keith Byerman. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989. xxxii + 210 p