Müller, Timo: The African American Sonnet: A Literary History

Comparative Literary History

Timo

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A Literary Anthroponomastics of Three Selected African Novels: A Cross Cultural Perspective

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...

Chapter 1: Migration in African-American Economic History

In the early twentieth century, American cities were home to immigrants from around the world; 23 percent of the urban population in the United States in 1910 was born abroad. Immigrants were attracted to the industrial centers of the Northeast and Midwest, cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh and Detroit, which offered plentiful jobs in rail yards, steel works and automobile manufacturing. Despite ...

Combinatorics of the Sonnet

Using a definition of a sonnet, the number of basic rhyming schemes is enumerated. This is then used to discuss the 86 sonnets which appear in John Clare’s The Rural Muse.