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WHAT WAS AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (THE W. E. B. DU BOIS By Kenneth W. Warren
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- ISBN-10
- 0674066294
- Publication Name
- Harvard University Press
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780674066298
- Book Title
- What Was African American Literature?
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
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- Language
- English
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- Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- American / African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature--and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In Warren's view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, Warren's work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674066294
ISBN-13
9780674066298
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Book Title
What Was African American Literature?
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
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10
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Ps153.N5w348 2012
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Is the idea that sustains the possibility of an African American literature today the belief that the welfare of the race as a whole depends on the success of black writers and those who are depicted in their texts, as Ken Warren suggests in this provocative new book? In compelling close readings of novels from George Schuyler's Black No More to Michael Thomas's Man Gone Down and in comprehensive engagements with major tendencies in literary criticism, What Was African American Literature? punctures contemporary assumptions about the role of black literature since the end of the Jim Crow regime that, Warren argues, provoked the literature's emergence in the first place., Most literary criticism today, under the sign of theory, is obscure and incomprehensible, and shies from presenting daring new ways to look at literature--when it engages with contemporary literature at all. Kenneth W. Warren's book is an example of a book of literary criticism in elegant prose, completely accessible and jargon-free, yet making a sophisticated argument about a whole branch of literature, connecting politics and literature in a most exciting way., What Was African American Literature? is undoubtedly one of the most provocative books on the texts and criticism of African American literature to appear within the past several years. The sophistication and range of its arguments further cement Warren's stature as one of the leading thinkers of our time.
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
810.9896073
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The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Dewey Edition
22
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