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Kinnamon, Keneth was born on December 4, 1932 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Son of David Ernest and Gladys Lucile (Page) Kinnamon.
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African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.
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For courses focusing on African American Writers. These courses are offered in English Departments, Ethnic Studies Departments, and African-American Studies Departments. This comprehensive collection of Afro-American literature – from its beginnings to the 1970s – provides a generous selection of autobiographies, essays, speeches, letters, political pamphlets, histories, journals, and folk literature as well as poems, plays, and stories – all chosen for their artistic and social significance. A carefully structured organization and the scope and diversity of selections make the anthology suitable to a variety of approaches – chronological, by topic, by theme, or by genre.
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Kinnamon, Keneth was born on December 4, 1932 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Son of David Ernest and Gladys Lucile (Page) Kinnamon.
Student, North Texas State College, 1950-1951; Bachelor of Arts with high honors, University Texas, 1953; postgraduate, University Texas, 1954-1955; A.M., Harvard University, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966.
Instructor in English, Boston Conservatory Music, 1956;
Instructor in English, Texas Technology College, 1956-1962;
instructor English,, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1965-1966;
assistant professor, University of Illinois, 1966-1970;
associate professor, University of Illinois, 1970-1973;
professor, University of Illinois, 1973-1982;
head department English, University of Illinois, 1977-1982;
Ethel Pumphrey Stephens Professor of English,, U. Arkansas, Fayetteville, since 1982;
department chairman, U. Ark, Fayetteville, 1982-1993. Manuscript referee for various publications and journals. Promotion referee for Yale University, U. New Mexico, City College of New York, Louisiana State University, U. North Carolina, University of California-Irvine, U. Florida, others.
Proposal referee Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities. Associate University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study, 1974.
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Member Modern Language Association, College Language Association, American Studies Association, College English Association, Hemingway Society, Richard Wright Circle.
Married Francisca Guillen. Children: John Homer, Louis Alexander, Theodore Antony.