Black Literature Criticism: Achebe-Ellison
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Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Kenneth W. Warren |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2003-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0226873803 |
"So Black and Blue is the best work we have on Ellison in his combined roles of writer, critic, and intellectual. By locating him in the precarious cultural transition between Jim Crow and the era of promised civil rights, Warren has produced a thoroughly engaging and compelling book, original in its treatment of Ellison and his part in shaping the history of ideas in the twentieth century."—Eric J. Sundquist, University of California, Los Angeles What would it mean to read Invisible Man as a document of Jim Crow America? Using Ralph Ellison's classic novel and many of his essays as starting points, Kenneth W. Warren illuminates the peculiar interrelation of politics, culture, and social scientific inquiry that arose during the post-Reconstruction era and persisted through the Civil Rights movement. Warren argues that Ellison's novel expresses the problem of who or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation. So Black and Blue shows that Ellison's successful transformation of these limits into possibilities has also, paradoxically, cast a shadow on the postsegregation world. What can be the direction of African American culture once the limits that have shaped it are stricken down? Here Warren takes up the recent, ongoing, and often contradictory veneration of Ellison's artistry by black writers and intellectuals to reveal the impoverished terms often used in discussions about the political and cultural future of African Americans. Ultimately, by showing what it would mean to take seriously the idea of American novels as creatures of their moment, Warren questions whether there can be anything that deserves the label of classic American literature.
Author | : James P. Draper |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810379299 |
V.1 Achebe - Ellison -- V.2 Emecheta - Malcolm X. -- V.3 Marshall - Young, Indexes.
Author | : Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134838344 |
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical strategies even more than it echoes black vernacular literary forms. This book, first published in 1984, is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of black literary theory on the one hand, and the features of black literary practice on the other. Rather than merely applying contemporary Western theory to black literature, these critics instead challenge and redefine the theory in order to make fresh, stimulating comments not only on black criticism and literature but also on the general state of criticism today.
Author | : Patrice D. Rankine |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0299220036 |
In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Author | : Winston Napier |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 745 |
Release | : 2000-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081475810X |
Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examine the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. Contributions are organized chronologically beginning with the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Black Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, queer theory, and cultural studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : James P. Draper |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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V.1 Achebe - Ellison -- V.2 Emecheta - Malcolm X. -- V.3 Marshall - Young, Indexes.
Author | : Jelena O. Krstovic |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.
Author | : Alan Nadel |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1991-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1587291630 |
Paper reissue of the 1972 edition. Crane argues that the social institution responsible for the growth of scientific knowledge is the small group of highly productive scientists who, sharing the same field of study, set priorities for research, recruit and train students, communicate with one another, and thus monitor the rapidly changing structure of knowledge in their field. First published (hardcover) in 1988. Nadel exposes some of the ways Ellison situates Invisible man in regard to the American literary tradition, comments on that tradition, and, in doing so, alters it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Houston A. Baker (Jr.) |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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