Essayist celebrates black authors in American literature

African- American Writers: Legends of Literature
BY KAREN D. CULLEY, DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE.COM

Literature is the cultural legacy that we must not forget. African-American Literature comes from the unique melody of a people intertwining the connection of ancestral Africa with the cords of hardship in America to produce a symphony of words that gush from the well of our experiences.

Did you know that early novelists like Charles W. Chesnutt were frustrated and hampered by the dialect tradition mainly because of America's great affection for stereotypes? White Publishers were so enamored with the writings of Joel Chandler Harris( Uncle Remus) that they refused to accept work by Blacks that were written in Standard EnglishEbonics anyone? >>MORE