<I>The Literary Corner: Introduction to Afro-American Essays with Sarah Fabio and Thomas Schick (side a) / Introduction to African English Drama with Brooks Robinson (side b)</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1978
name: label: Created by
content: Brooks B. Robinson Ph.D., American
label: Interview of
content: Thomas Schick PhD, American, 1947 - 1987
label: Interviewed by
content: Sarah Fabio, PhD, American, 1928 - 1979
label: Subject of
content: John Pepper Clark, Nigerian, born 1935
label: Subject of
content: Wole Soyinka, Nigerian, born 1934
label: Subject of
content: Martin Robison Delany, American, 1812 - 1885
label: Directed by
content: Robert Cham
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content: A white plastic cassette tape with recordings of two episodes of the radio program The Literary Corner. The cassette has a beige label on which typewritten text on one side reads [ THE LITERARY CORNER / B W O T W Intro to African- American Essays]. The typewritten text on the other side reads [THE LITERARY CORNER / Intro to African Drama].
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content: Side A: “Introduction to Afro-American Essays with Sarah Fabio and Thomas Schick”
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content: Episode 17 of the Literary Corner radio program entitled “Introduction to Afro-American Essays with Sarah Fabio and Thomas Schick.” It begins with Professor Thomas Schick discussing the Afro-American essay and its purpose, before host Brooks Robinson formally introduces Dr. Schick as the episode’s guest. The main individuals and/or subjects covered in this episode include the free blacks who authored some of the first African American essays; “A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793” written by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones; essayists such as James Forten, Lydia Child and Robert Purvis; Edward Wilmot Blyden’s writings; David Walker’s Appeal; Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell; late 19th century essays/essayists such as W.E.B. DuBois (The Souls of Black Folk) and William Wells Brown (“The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Achievements by 1863”); essayists during the Harlem Renaissance, such as Alaine Locke (editor of The New Negro magazine); critiques and literary analyses, such as James Baldwin’s “Nobody Knows My Name,” and critiques by Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright; contemporary essayists such as Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver. The episode concludes with Professors Sarah Fabio and Thomas Schick discussing the importance of independent magazines and pamphlets. Professor Fabio mentions some journals, such as Negro Journal, Phylon from Atlanta University, and CLA Journal, “that always kept the essay alive.”
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content: Side B: “Introduction to African English Drama with Brooks Robinson”
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content: Episode 24 of the Literary Corner radio program. The episode begins with a dramatization of an excerpt from Wole Soyinka’s play The Trials of Brother Hero. Some of the individuals/topics covered in this episode are Wole Soyinka’s works, such as Jero’s Metamorphosis and A Dance of the Forest; the development of anglophone African drama over time; dates the first anglophone African plays were published; genres of African drama; the challenges anglophone African playwrights face; the works of African playwright John Pepper Clark, such as A Song of A Goat, The Masquerade, The Raft, and Ozidi; major themes in John Pepper Clark’s work, such as lineage and arbitrariness; the impact of the Nigerian civil war on Clark’s work; as well as the impact of British colonization on West African drama. The episode concludes with Robinson providing an explanation as to why there are only two exceptional anglophone African drama writers: Wole Soyinka and John Pepper Clark, both of whom are from Nigeria. He continues by stating that there are other emerging anglophone African drama writers and that more will continue to emerge over time, before reciting the outro.
place: label: Place depicted
content: West Africa, Africa
label: Place depicted
content: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
label: Place made
content: United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
title: label: Title
content: Cassette tape with two episodes of the Literary Corner radio program
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Drama (Theatre)
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content: Folklife
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content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
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content: Radio
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: The Literary Corner: Black Writers of the World
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content: Time-based Media - Audio
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
label: Movement
content: BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
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content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Contributed in memory of Professor Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979), poet, educator, Black Arts Movement icon, and one of the Literary Corner's analysts.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2010.17.1.9a
objectType: label: Type
content: audiotapes
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Brooks B. Robinson
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: plastic and tape
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (audiocassette): 2 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 5/8 in. (7 × 10.8 × 1.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (side A): 00:15:08
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content: Duration (side B): 00:14:49