"Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the di...

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1. Verfasser:	Reed, Anthony, 1978-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:	Callaloo African diaspora series.
Schlagworte:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Literature, Experimental > United States > History and criticism. Littérature expérimentale > États-Unis > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory. POETRY > American > African American. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature > African American authors Literature, Experimental United States UNITED STATES. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness of experimental writing, which is part of a general shift in emphasis among black writers away from appeals for social recognition or raising consciousness. In Freedom Time--the second book to appear in the Callaloo African Diaspora Series--Anthony Reed offers a theoretical reading of "black experimental writing" that understands the term both as a profound literary development and as a concept with which to analyze the ways that writing challenges us to rethink the relationships between race and literary techniques. Through extended analyses of works by African American and Afro-Caribbean writers--including N.H. Pritchard, Suzan-Lori Parks, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Nathaniel Mackey--Reed develops a new sense of the literary politics of formally innovative writing and the connections between literature and politics since the 1960s. Freedom Time reclaims the power of experimental black voices by arguing that, if literature fundamentally serves the human need for freedom in expression, then readers and critics must see it as more than a mere reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression"--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
ISBN:	9781421415215 1421415216