Daryl Cumber Dance
American academic
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- Bachelors English Virginia Union University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daryl Cumber Dance is an American academic best known for her work on black folklore. Biography Daryl Veronica Cumber was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Allen and Veronica Bell Cumber. She attended Ruthville High School in Ruthville, Virginia, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia State College in 1957. She then taught at Armstrong High School in Richmond until 1962, when she returned to Virginia State College as an instructor. The next year, she completed a master's degree from Virginia State. In 1971, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a doctorate in English, and was named an assistant professor at Virginia State. She taught at Virginia Commonwealth University between 1972 and 1993, when she joined the University of Richmond faculty. In 2013, she was appointed Sterling A. Brown Professor of English at Howard University.
Daryl Cumber Dance's Published Works
Published Works
- An outbreak of melioidosis in imported primates in Britain (1992) (50)
- A Conversation with Velma Pollard (2004) (33)
- Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (1986) (33)
- Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1998) (31)
- Folklore from contemporary Jamaicans (1985) (21)
- From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (2002) (19)
- Contemporary Afro-American Folklore@@@Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans. (1979) (17)
- New World Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers (1994) (14)
- Conversations with Nikki Giovanni (1992) (7)
- Fifty caribbean writers (1986) (6)
- Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore (1987) (6)
- IN SEARCH OF NELLA LARSEN: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE COLOR LINE (2006) (5)
- Go Eena Kumbla: A Comparison of Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home and Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters (1990) (3)
- Matriarchs, Doves, and Nymphos: Prevalent Images of Black, Indian, and White Women in Caribbean Literature (1993) (3)
- African American Literature By Writers of Caribbean Descent (2011) (3)
- You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin and the South (1974) (3)
- An Interview of Paule Marshall (1992) (3)
- Sentimentalism in Dreiser's Heroines, Carrie and Jennie (1970) (3)
- Black Eve or Madonna? A Study of the Antithetical Views of the Mother in Black American Literature (1979) (2)
- In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse (2016) (2)
- Contemporary Militant Black Humor (2018) (1)
- The Lineage of Abraham: The Biography of a Free Black Family in Charles City, VA (1998) (1)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1977) (1)
- Wit and Humor in the Slave Narratives (1977) (1)
- Constructing Black Selves: Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation by Lisa D. McGill (Book Review) (2007) (1)
- Afro-American Studies (1989) (0)
- " Learn It w the Younguns " : Passi , ng on Folk Wisdom (2017) (0)
- Emily and Annie: Doris Lessing's and Jamaica Kincaid's Portraits of the Mothers They Remember and the Mothers That Might Have Been (2010) (0)
- Jamaica Novel Has Ring of Truth. The Harder They Come by Michael Thelwell (Book Review) (1980) (0)
- Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life by Bruce King (Book Review) (2002) (0)
- The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers by Brenda Chester DoHarris (Book Review) (1998) (0)
- In the Beginning: A New View of Black American Etiological Tales (1977) (0)
- "Journey to An Expectation:" A Reflection and a Prayer (1997) (0)
- Teasing Tales and Tit(Bit)s (1992) (0)
- Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative (review) (2000) (0)
- "I Going Away. I Going Home.": Austin Clarke's "Leaving this Island Place" (2010) (0)
- A Birth and a Death, or Everything Important Happens on Monday (2009) (0)
- Ismith Khan (1925-2002) (2006) (0)
- The Zea Mexican Dairy: 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986. by Kamau Brathwaite (Book Review) (1994) (0)
- james baldwin (2020) (0)
- "Learn It to the Younguns": Passing on Folk Wisdom (1988) (0)
- Following in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks : Autobiographical Notes by the Author of Shuckin' and Jivin' (1979) (0)
- james baldwin (2020) (0)
- Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview (1998) (0)
- Who Was Cock Robin? A New Reading of Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (2006) (0)
- Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance – Faculty Author Interview (2017) (0)
- "Aunt Sue's Stories": The Use of Folklore in the Teaching of Literature (1980) (0)
- 'Grung Tell Me Wud': An Introduction to Karl (2008) (0)
- Tuning in the Boiler Room and the Cotton Patch: New Directions in the Study of Afro-American Folklore (1977) (0)
- African-American Proverbs in Context by Sw. Anand Prahlad (Book Review) (1997) (0)
- Seeking Polly, Pretty Polly, Poor Polly, or The Granddaughter Seeks to Remember What the Grandfathers Sought to Forget (1994) (0)
- “I Put the Tale Back Where I Found It”: Feeling the Past Through “the Warmth of the Human Voice” (2007) (0)
- Notice the Mistletoe (1996) (0)
- TO TELL A FREE STORY: THE FIRST CENTURY OF AFROAMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1760-1865 (1989) (0)
- "The Color Purple" Takes Us On Emotional Journey of Self-Discovery (Performance Review) (2014) (0)
- Daddy May Bring Home Some Bread, But He Don't Cut No Ice: The Economic Plight of the Father Figure in Black American Literature. (1975) (0)
- Bosom Buddies and Lonely Hearts (1984) (0)
- My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid (Book Review) (1998) (0)
- Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival by Meredith M. Gadsby (Book Review) (2007) (0)
- Various Black Virginians as Told to Daryl Cumber Dance (1994) (0)
- The Lion Tells His Own Tale (2015) (0)
- UR Scholarship Repository (1988) (0)
- "He's Long Gone": The Theme of Escape in Black Folklore and Literature (1992) (0)
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