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Doreatha Mbalia

  • Professor Emeritus, African & African Diaspora Studies

Education

  • PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana

Teaching Interests

  • The foundations of Afro-American literary thought and criticism
  • The individual and society in African-American, African and Caribbean literature
  • The formation, content and social utility of symbolism mythology, folklore, aesthetics and the uses of language in the Afroworld.
  • Women's literature.

Research Interests

Pan-Africanism, African Women Studies, and African People Compared: Africa and the Diaspora. Biography of Kwame Nkrumah; John Edgar Wideman, Toni Morrison, developmental writing texts.

Selected Publications

Mbalia, D. D.() Slavocracy and the African Female in Toni Morrison's BELOVED and A MERCY.
Mbalia, D. D.(2004) Toni Morrison’s Developing Class Consciousness.Cranbury, New Jersey: Susquehanna University Press.
Jarrett, J. M., Mbalia, D. D., & Lee, M. G.(2002) Heritage: African American Readings for Writing.Prentice Hall.
Jarrett, J. M., Lee, M. G., & Mbalia, D. D.(1999) Pathways: A Text for Developing Writers.
Mbalia, D. D., & Mbalia, A. .(1997) Preface for Pan-Africanism and Its Detractors: A Response to Harvard’s Race-Effacing Universalists.Westview Press.

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