Representing the race: a new political history of African American literature
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1. Verfasser: Jarrett, Gene Andrew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York University Press ©2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Toward a political history of African American literature -- The politics of early African American literature -- The culture of racial politics after slavery -- New Negro politics from reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance -- The geopolitics of African American autobiography between the world wars -- Copyright law, free speech, and the transformative value of African American literature -- The political audacity of Barack Obama's literature -- Epilogue: The politics of African American literature after Obama
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sort-pamphlets, autobiographies, cultural criticism, poems, short stories, and novels-to parse the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African Amer
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