Citations:Affrilachia

English citations of Affrilachia

• 2004, Katharine Capshaw Smith, Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

  And it is in defining Affrilachia specifically that Yancey can evade the totalizing depictions of minstrelsy. In fact, the issue of Appalachian character has been contested throughout the twentieth century since the "discovery" of Appalachian ...

• 2005, Danny Miller, An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature, Ohio University Press (→ISBN), page 317:

  The idea of Affrilachia opens Appalachia to more fluid ways of thinking about the area and its residents. Frank X Walker acknowledges that Affrilachia “does such a good job describing who we are, our space inside the space, and it does it in a  ..."

• 2006, Austrian Association for American Studies. Conference, Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change, LIT Verlag Münster (→ISBN), page 218:

  ... has porous boundaries, Walker extends that porosity to Affrilachia as well, saying : When I think about Appalachia, I'm not as married to geographical limits. I'm concerned with meanings and ideas. And what's helped me understand Affrilachia ...

• 2007, Yolanda Williams Page, Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Greenwood Publishing Group (→ISBN), page 141:

  Using both Affrilachia and also other places which chronicle her own biographical happenings, Davenport transports readers on an ''odyssey'' as she revisits sites of personal and collective memory and experience—an odyssey that leaves ...

• 2016, William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN)

  Their discussions of performer Rhiannon Giddens's body ultimately constructs a performative identity of Affrilachia. The term Affrilachia was coined by Frank X Walker to signify the presence of African-descended people within the region of [Appalachia] ...

• 2017, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Jeremy Paden, Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN), page 18:

  Likewise, and as the name unequivocally signals, Affrilachia is rooted in the African diaspora and is largely a collective of writers whose roots trace back to the forced migrations of the Atlantic Slave Trade.