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Keith Gilyard Publishes New Memoir and Poetry Collection
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies Keith Gilyard published a new memoir, The Promise of Language. Chronicling his encounters with language, Gilyard reflects on the Black American vernacular, music, mentors, institutions, and movements that shaped his life.
Gilyard also recently published a collection of some of his major works, Discourse in Black: Voices
of the Self, Let’s Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories, which highlights some of his most influential writing. Voices of the Self and Let’s Flip the Script focus on the impact of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) on education and the ways that language functions as a transformative tool in the classroom. Liberation Memories explores rhetoric and poetics in African-American literature.
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies Keith Gilyard published a new memoir, The Promise of Language. Chronicling his encounters with language, Gilyard reflects on the Black American vernacular, music, mentors, institutions, and movements that shaped his life.
Gilyard also recently published a collection of some of his major works, Discourse in Black: Voices
of the Self, Let’s Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories, which highlights some of his most influential writing. Voices of the Self and Let’s Flip the Script focus on the impact of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) on education and the ways that language functions as a transformative tool in the classroom. Liberation Memories explores rhetoric and poetics in African-American literature.