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Journal articles on the topic "Free African Americans in fiction"

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Anita S., Dr Arockia Anto. "Slavery to Liberty: A Heroic Journey of a Marginal Black Woman in Toni Morrison’s Beloved." International Journal of English and Studies 07, no. 04 (2025): 146–51. https://doi.org/10.47311/ijoes.2025.7.04.151.

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African-American Literature intersects in its portrayal of the subverted marginal through Literature. It has received universal acknowledgement since the works of both the men and women writers attempt to show the poignant struggles undergone by the African Americans, not for money or power but for asserting or claiming their basic human right of parity and liberty. But men writers have failed to witness the sufferings of women in the enslaved community. Women are given much importance in the literary arena of African- American women as they are the most affected group and the jeopardy of the
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Budick, Emily Miller. "Some Thoughts on the Mutual Displacements/Appropriations/Accommodations of Culture in Several Fictions by Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, and Grace Paley." Prospects 20 (October 1995): 387–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006128.

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InPlaying in the Dark, Toni Morrison sets out to chart a new “geography” in literary criticism, to provide a “map” for locating what she calls the “Africanist” presence in the American literary tradition. The assumption of Americanist critics, she argues, has been that “traditional, canonical American literature is free of, uninformed, and unshaped by the fourhundred-year-old presence of, first, Africans and then, African Americans in the United States. It assumes that this presence — which shaped the body politic, the Constitution, and the entire history of the culture — has had no significan
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J. M. Samarrai, Ghanim. "Bombingham: Anthony Grooms's Contribution to Constructing Control over Black Representations in Contemporary American Literature." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 10, no. 1 (2009): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.10.1.5.

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Some Critics complain that American literature has done a poor job of accurately depicting blacks and that an authentic portrait presenting the black man as a free American citizen has not yet been painted. In the main, these complaints draw upon the notion that early and modern American fiction confined the images of African Americans to stereotypically limited depictions, exemplified as primitive characters that needed the protection of the 'benevolent' whites they served. Black authors had found that obtaining access to correct narrativerepresentation was not simple: to turn the field into
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Elliott, Zetta. "The Trouble with Magic: Conjuring the Past in New York City Parks." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 5, no. 2 (2013): 17–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.5.2.17.

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New York City parks serve as magical sites of discovery and recovery in speculative fiction for young readers, which has gone through a process of modernization, shifting from “universal” and “generic” narratives with repetitive features (derived from Western European folklore) to a sort of “specialization” that emphasizes the particular cultural practices and histories of racially diverse urban populations. Ruth Chew uses city spaces like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Prospect Park to engage young readers in the magical adventures of white, middle-class children. Zetta Elliott’s African Ame
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Corey, Jean T. "“Motherwork”." Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 5, no. 2 (2011): 205–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/post.v5i2.205.

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Born in 1825, a free African American in Baltimore, Maryland, author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper devoted her life to the struggle for freedom. An abolitionist, and suffragist, the Bible figured prominently in Harper’s poetry, fiction, essays, and speeches. This essay considers how Harper’s poetry particularly challenged her nineteenth century reader to engage in more meaningful biblical interpretive strategies. Anticipating twentieth century Womanist interpretations, Harper disrupts and revises interpretive strategies that had been used to read against the biblical narrative’s message of libe
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Herbert, Eti Best, and Fasilat Abimbola Olalere. "What Is Economic Globalization Without Trans-boundary Migration?" Global Trade and Customs Journal 15, Issue 10 (2020): 493–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/gtcj2020088.

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The world is often regarded as a global village or borderless globe where various countries freely interconnect and interrelate towards achieving a global goal. Globalization has occasioned international cooperation amongst States through the formation of several treaties and international organizations with economic objectives. This article evaluates the law and attitude of States and International organizations towards economically motivated trans-boundary migration. Particular reference is made to World Trade Organization(WTO), European Union(EU), African Union (AU), Economic Community of W
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Zubov, Artem A. "Mutual Adaptation as a Guarantee of the Future: Octavia Butler’s Works." Literature of the Americas, no. 13 (2022): 295–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2022-13-295-313.

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The article investigates works by Octavia E. Butler (1947 –2006), an African-American writer who had a significant impact on the development of science fiction in the USA and the world. The paper provides an overview of Butler’s works and reveals the relationship between the problems and language / style of her prose, the latter being determined by the former. The first part of the paper examines the main topics of Butler’s works and focuses on the problem of survival. Being a disappearing minority, Butler’s heroines are usually isolated from others and, consequently, in order to survive they
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Broyld, Dann J. "The Underground Railroad As Afrofuturism: Enslaved Blacks Who Imagined A Future And Used Technology To Reach The “Outer Spaces of Slavery”." Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 6, no. 3 (2019): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/301.

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This article employs the lens of Afrofuturism to address the Underground Railroad, detailing what imagination, tact, and technology, it took for fugitive Blacks to flee to the “outer spaces of slavery.” Black enslavement was as terrifying as any exotic fictional tale, but it happened to real humans alienated in the “peculiar institution.” Escaping slavery brought dreams to life, and at times must have felt like “magical realism,” or an out-of-body experience, and the American North, Canada, Mexico, Africa, Europe, and free Caribbean islands were otherworldly and science fiction-like, in contra
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LEE, KUN JONG. "Towards Interracial Understanding and Identification: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker." Journal of American Studies 44, no. 4 (2010): 741–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875810000022.

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African Americans and Korean Americans have addressed Black–Korean encounters and responded to each other predominantly in their favorite genres: in films and rap music for African Americans and in novels and poems for Korean Americans. A case in point is the intertextuality between Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker. A comparative study of the two demonstrates that they are seminal texts of African American–Korean American dialogue and discourse for mutual understanding and harmonious relationships between the two races in the USA. This paper reads the African A
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Kumar, Fayaz Ahmad, and Colette Morrow. "Theorizing Black Power Movement in African American Literature: An Analysis of Morrison's Fiction." Global Language Review V, no. IV (2020): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(v-iv).06.

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This paper analyzes the influence of the Black Power movement on the AfricanAmerican literary productions; especially in the fictional works of Toni Morrison. As an African-American author, Toni Morrison presents the idea of 'Africanness' in her novels. Morrison's fiction comments on the fluid bond amongst the African-American community, the Black Power and Black Aesthetics. The works of Morrison focus on various critical points in the history of African-Americans, her fiction recalls not only the memory of Africa but also contemplates the contemporary issues. Morrison situates the power polit
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Free African Americans in fiction"

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Holmes, Janel L. "The Color of Memory: Reimagining the Antebellum South in Works by James McBride Through the use of Free Indirect Discourse." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4220.

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This thesis examines the use of interior narrative techniques such as free indirect discourse and internal monologue in two of James McBride’s neo-slave narratives, Song Yet Sung (2008) and The Good Lord Bird (2013). Very limited critical attention has been given to these neo-slave narratives that illustrate McBrides attention to characterization and focalized narration. In these narratives McBride builds upon the revelations he explores in his bestselling memoir, The Color of Water (1996, 2006), where he learns to disassociate race and character. What he discovers about not only his mother, b
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Chapi, Aicha. "Towards a reading of Toni Morrison's fiction : African-American history, the arts and contemporary theory /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19671441.

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Watts, Billie Stephanie Powell. "Talk to me while I'm listening : a novella /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115597.

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Bartlett, Andrew Walsh. "The free place : literary, visual, and jazz creations of space in the 1960s /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10312.

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Savery, Steven J. "The free Negro in Illinois prior to the Civil War, 1818-1860 /." View online, 1986. http://ia301519.us.archive.org/0/items/freenegroinillin00save/freenegroinillin00save.pdf.

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O'Donovan, Susan E. "Transforming work : slavery, free labor, and the household in Southwest Georgia, 1850-1880 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9808979.

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Reilly, Elizabeth Lauren. "The "scab" of slavery interracial female solidarity in literature about the antebellum South /." Click for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588773401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Jackson, Tambra Oni. "Learning to teach in Freedom Schools developing practices and identities as educators and activists /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2006.

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Hollingsworth, Lauren Colleen. "Reading the (in)visible race African-American subject representation and formation in American literature /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=2019837021&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1274464483&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2010.<br>Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 21, 2010). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.
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Hicks, Nytasia M. ""It's a care free way of life": A qualitative descriptive study on living-apart-together relationships among older black women." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595603122018959.

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Books on the topic "Free African Americans in fiction"

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Grimes, Nikki. Dyamonde and Free. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.

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Cliff, Michelle. Free enterprise. Viking, 1993.

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Hambly, Barbara. A free man of color. Bantam Books, 1998.

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Nailah, Anika. Free: And other stories. Doubleday, 2002.

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Lacey, Earnest Edward. FreeJoe. FreeJoe Enterprises, 1996.

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Wilson, Harriet E. Our nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free black. Penguin Books, 2009.

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Cliff, Michelle. Free Enterprise: A Novel. Dutton, 1993.

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Hambly, Barbara. A free man of color. Bantam Books, 1997.

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Deane, Pamala-Suzette. My story being this: Details of the life of Mary Williams Magahee, lady of colour. University Press of New England, 2004.

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Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black. Penguin Books, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Free African Americans in fiction"

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Murray, Hannah Lauren. "‘I’m making a white man of him’: Making and Breaking Whiteness in The Garies and their Friends." In Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481731.003.0007.

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Returning to the origin of critical whiteness studies, antebellum African American literature, this chapter examines how tenets of Whiteness are performative and arbitrary in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and their Friends. Assembling a cast of respectable free African American families and cunning and dishonest White men, Webb depicts Whiteness as a set of values not intrinsic to White bodies, and that the privileges Whiteness affords are not extended to Black Americans who embody those tenets. Influenced by the cross-racial oratory of his wife Mary E. Webb, Webb conveys the permeability of the
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Hall, Michael Ra-Shon. "“The See-Saw of Race”." In Freedom Beyond Confinement. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979701.003.0002.

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The first chapter argues that writers in the black press from the post-Reconstruction era through the 1960s attempt to locate and advertise geographical spaces in which African Americans could move beyond mobility consistently haunted and complicated by uneven practices of discrimination as well as a disparate quality of accommodations and services. Citing a multitude of news articles from numerous black press outlets, the chapter illustrates how racialized and ethnic social practices made it difficult for African American travelers to journey with the same confidence as their European America
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Selisker, Scott. "Uniquely American Symptoms." In Human Programming. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816699872.003.0002.

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The first chapter explores how 1940s and 1950s ideas about totalitarianism and brainwashing established a way of talking about free American selves as opposed to unfree, totalitarian others in political science, propaganda, fiction, and films like The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The chapter analyses representations of totalitarianism, brainwashing, and the military. It explores these in discourse around the Korean War, communist China, and African American prisoners of war.
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Ludwig, Sämi. "Fighting the Wrongheaded Doppelgänger." In With Fists Raised. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859777.003.0009.

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In Ishmael Reed’s work, the Black Arts movement’s drive for cultural self-determination manifests itself as a matter of representational politics. This paper argues that there is a striking consistency in Reed’s vision, from his early fiction to his latest essays, in his continuous efforts to free the image of African Americans from racist appropriations. This manifests itself both in his playful satire and in his angry footnoted prose. Special attention is given to doubling and the appropriation of one’s image (“etheric double”) by powerful outside forces—an issue which connects media, power,
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"Victor Séjour: “The Mulatto”." In Schlager Anthology of Black America. Schlager Group Inc., 2021. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306627.book-part-037.

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Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulatre,” or “The Mulatto,” was published in Paris in 1837. Though his works were published in France, Séjour was born in New Orleans, the son of a free Black Haitian “migr” and his freeborn mixed-race wife. This short story was thus the first known literary work of fiction produced by an African American. The story had little significance in its time; in fact, it was not translated into English until 1997. What is important about “The Mulatto” is its creepy plot, which is often compared to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, though its significance as a documentation of the crue
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"Carnegie Public Libraries for African Americans." In Not Free, Not for All. University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1hd1917.6.

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Griffin, Martin. "Race and Intelligence: African-Americans and the Secret Life." In Reading Espionage Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399520799.003.0007.

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Chapter examines espionage fiction that has a central focus on African-American political identity and the experience of being Black in America. From early short stories by Richard Wright to novels by Sam E. Greenlee and John A. Williams, the racial structure of America makes daily life similar to being on a covert mission behind enemy lines, demanding secrecy and dissembling. The threat of the Black revolutionary survives to disrupt narratives of consensus, even in contemporary dramas such as Homeland.
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Shrader‐Frechette, Kristin. "African Americans, LULUs, and Free Informed Consent." In Environmental Justice. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195152034.003.0004.

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"Chapter 6 Race and Intelligence: African-Americans and the Secret Life." In Reading Espionage Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781399520812-008.

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White, Jonathan W. "African American Dreams." In Midnight in America. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632049.003.0004.

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The experience of slavery had an indelible effect on the dreams of black Americans. Some slaves dreamt of escape, or of loved ones who had been sold away. Former slaves sometimes had vivid dreams of being returned into slavery. Whether slave or free, African Americans often looked to their dreams as signs from God or as confirmation of their conversion to Christianity. White Americans tended to look down on African American dream practices as superstitious, but in fact, white and black Americans had a shared dream culture that stretched back into the colonial era.
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Conference papers on the topic "Free African Americans in fiction"

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Macken, Jared. "The Ordinary within the Extraordinary: The Ideology and Architectural Form of Boley, an “All-Black Town” in the Prairie." In 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.63.

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In 1908, Booker T. Washington stepped off the Fort Smith and Western Railway train into the town of Boley, Oklahoma. Washington found a bustling main street home to over 2,500 African American citizens. He described this collective of individuals as unified around a common goal, “with the definite intention of getting a home and building up a community where they can, as they say, be ‘free.’” The main street was the physical manifestation of this idea, the center of the community. It was comprised of ordinary banks, store front shops, theaters, and social clubs, all of which connected to form
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Reports on the topic "Free African Americans in fiction"

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Bodenhorn, Howard. The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w8957.

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Lazonick, William, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz. The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp159.

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In the decade after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, African Americans made historic gains in accessing employment opportunities in racially integrated workplaces in U.S. business firms and government agencies. In the previous working papers in this series, we have shown that in the 1960s and 1970s, Blacks without college degrees were gaining access to the American middle class by moving into well-paid unionized jobs in capital-intensive mass production industries. At that time, major U.S. companies paid these blue-collar workers middle-class wages, offered stable employment, and provided employe
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