Background
Herron, Carolivia was born on July 22, 1947 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Oscar Smith and Georgia Carol (Johnson) Herron.
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Thereafter Johnnie by Carolivia Herron weaves beauty, sorrow and tragic vision into the fall of an incestuous African American family. The failure of this middle-class family of Washington, DC is linked to failures of national destiny, religion, and the crime of slavery.
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Volume 1 of the 2 volume novel, Asenath and Our Song of Songs, shares scenes from the life of Shirah Shulamit Ojero, an African American Jewish girl and woman, growing up in Washington, DC. Shirah reexamines and affirms her Judaic ancestry, becomes a graduate student studying epic poetry at the University of Pen Forest, and in the process of writing her doctoral dissertation discovers that hair as nappy as hers has existed only once before - on the head of Ancient Egyptian Asenath. The entertwined stories of Shirah and Asenath becomes a quest for a book unknown in heaven, and leads them through deserts, mountains, and many academic halls. The characters seek the book not only at the University of Pen Forest in Philadelphia, but also at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, West Cambridge University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Library of Saïs in Egypt. Asenath's story is mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament, as well as in contemporary texts such as Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann. She is the daughter of the Egyptian priest, Poti-pherah, and eventually becomes the wife of Joseph in Egypt. Volume 2 of the novel focuses on the life of Asenath and her connection with Joseph, Shirah, the Pharaoh, also known as the Directing Angel of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, and the Pharaoh's Companion, Nefertha of BlackWomanSong, also known as BeeJay Skerett, the Angel who Knows the Difference.
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Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American "call and response" tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illustrations by Joe Cepeda. Winner of a Parenting Reading Magic Award
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Herron, Carolivia was born on July 22, 1947 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Oscar Smith and Georgia Carol (Johnson) Herron.
She has a Bachelor in English from Eastern Baptist College in Pennsylvania (now Eastern University). She earned an Master of Arts in English from Villanova University in 1973, and an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania.
Herron spent a postdoctoral research year at Brandeis University investigating the subject of African American Jews.
Assistant professor Afro-American studies and comparative literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986-1990;
associate Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1990-1992;
assistant Professor of English, California State University, Chico, California, since 1998. Board directors curriculum development program National Endowment for Humanities, Cambridge, Study Group in Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Cambridge. Visiting fellow Folger Shakespeare Library., Washington, since 1989.
Benedict visiting professor Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1989-1990. Director Epicenter for the Study ofEpic Literature. Visiting scholar Hebrew College, Massachusetts, 1994-1996, Harvard Division School, since 1995.
Technical associate Harvard Graduate School Education, since 1996. Director conference on African-American Jews, Hebrew College, since 1995. Coordinator African-American electronic texts development Howard U.
Visiting scholar Brandeis U., 1997-1998.
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Member Classical Association New England.