Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary -- In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction -- Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spa...

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1. Verfasser:	Barrett, Lindon 1961-2008 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Neary, Janet (HerausgeberIn), Alexander, Elizabeth 1962- (MitwirkendeR), Brody, Jennifer DeVere (MitwirkendeR)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Durham Duke University Press 2018
Schlagworte:	Geschichte American literature / African American authors / History and criticism / Theory, etc Literature and society / History / 20th century / United States African Americans / Intellectual life / 20th century African Americans in literature Schwarze Literatur USA Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary -- In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction -- Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces -- The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity -- Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism -- Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives -- African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority -- Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom -- Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light -- Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms -- Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man" -- The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea -- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman -- Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy -- Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social -- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue" -- Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s -- Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness -- Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 376 pages)
ISBN:	9780822372066 0822372061