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Era Bell Thompson
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Era Bell Thompson
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Chicago renaissance writer
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ETD_2649
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053022
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eng
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theses
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Thompson, Era Bell--Criticism and interpretation
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Literatures in English
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African American journalists--United States--Biography
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This dissertation examines and elevates the life and work of Era Bell Thompson, an obscure 20th century black American writer and journalist. Significant research in the archives of Chicago's Carter G. Woodson Regional Library's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection unveiled the Era Bell Thompson Papers. After spending years retrieving and examining over 100 boxes of material in the archives, the contributions of this important writer and intellectual to American women's literature and history will finally be fully recognized. An intergral part of the Chicago Renaissance movement (1930-1960s), Thompson differed culturally from the collective group of African American migrants from the South. She also worked in a traditionally male profession. Both circumstances contributed to her obscurity, but they also enhanced her point of view. Thompson, raised in North Dakota at the beginning of the century by her ex-slave father, offers a unique perspective as one who speaks from both inside and outside the American mainstream. As the first and only woman editor and writer at Johnson Publishing Company, she established a writing career as a foreign correspondent for Ebony magazine at a time when women and blacks were not traditionally found in such positions. A textual analysis of her autobiography, American Daughter (1946), travel narrative, Africa, Land of My Fathers (1954) that includes a comparison to Richard Wright's Black Power (1954), and various articles published in Ebony and Negro Digest between 1947 and 1974 found Thompson to be a significant African American woman writer, comparable to Zora Neale Hurston. Era Bell Thompson is best known for her use of humor and understatement as a way to critique many issues, including sexism, racism, and class-ism. She also uses humor as a radical means to shift the language of thinking about race. This is evident in her national and international writing, as Thompson framed African Americans worldwide positively, and provided readers with a broader perspective.
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xvi, 207 p.
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Ph.D.
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Includes abstract
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Vita
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Eileen De Freece-Wilson
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Eileen
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1958-
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Cheryl A.
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Francis Bartkowski
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2010
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2010
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doi:10.7282/T3BR8S9C
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Copyright protected
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Open
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De Freece-Wilson
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Eileen
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2010-04-16 20:02:48
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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