Miriam DeCosta-Willis -- Academic Articles, Book Chapters, and Essays, 1967-2002

Materials include academic articles, book chapters, and essays authored and co-authored by Mriam DeCosta-Willis.

Folder 6 includes: "Imitation, Theme and Structure in Garcilaso's First Elegy,": co-authored with Steven F. Rendall, Modern Language Notes, March, 1967; "Social Lyricism and the Caribbean Poet/Rebel," CLA Journal, June, 1972; "The Evolution of the 'Tema Negro' in the Literature of the Spanish Baroque," CLA Journal, March, 1974; "Historical and Literary Views of Yusuf, African Conqueror of Spain," Journal of Negro History, October, 1975; "Canebrake and Cotton Field: Thematic Parallels Between Afro-Hispanic and Afro-America Poetry," South Atlantic Bulletin, November, 1976; "The Use of African Folklore in Hispanic Literature," Caribbean Quarterly, Spring, 1977; "Prólogo: La canción negra de Arozarena" in Canción negra sin color by Marcelino Arozarena. Havana: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, 1983; "Folklore and the Creative Artist: Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston," CLA Journal, September, 1983; "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Culture in Memphis During the Fifties," in Memphis, 1948-1958, 1986; "Smoothing the Tucks in Father's Linen: The Women of Cedar Hill," in Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. Edited by Patricia Bell-Scott et al. Boston: Beach Press, 1991; "DuBois's Memphis Connection," The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, 1988; "Self and Society in the Afro-Cuban Slave Narrative," Latin American Literary Review, July-December, 1988.

Folder 7 includes: "Avenging Angels and Mute Mothers: Black Southern Women in Wright's Fictional World,"Callaloo, Summer, 1986; "Jerry Ward's Use of Feminist Theory and Metaphoric Language in Critical Discourse on Black Women's Literature," The Griot, Fall, 1990; "Ida B. Wells's Diary: A Narrative of the Black Community of Memphis in the 1880s," The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, December, 1991; "Southern Folk Roots in the Slave Poetry of Elma Stuckey," CLA Journal, June, 1995; "Martha K. Cobb and the Shaping of Afro-Hispanic Literary Criticism," CLA Journal, June, 2002; as well as an undated essay titled "The Spirit of African Art in the South" and an undated short story.