What Was African American Literature? / / Kenneth W. Warren.
Warren argues, quite bluntly, that “African American literature” has outlived its relevance as the dominant category for poetry, fiction, and plays written by African Americans. Contradicting an influential portion of the field, which regards this literature as an emanation of vernacular expression...
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Warren, Kenneth W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut What Was African American Literature? / Kenneth W. Warren. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2012 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Historicizing African American Literature -- 2. Particularity and the Problem of Interpretation -- 3. The Future of the Past -- Conclusion: The Past in the Present -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Warren argues, quite bluntly, that “African American literature” has outlived its relevance as the dominant category for poetry, fiction, and plays written by African Americans. Contradicting an influential portion of the field, which regards this literature as an emanation of vernacular expression going back to slavery, and even to Africa, Warren asserts that African American literature was the body of literature and criticism written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. In arguing against the continued relevance of the category of African American literature, Warren is certainly not claiming that racism has ceased to exist. Rather, he says that while it continues to make a great difference in African American life, other social and political factors weigh heavily also - so much so that categories which take race as the fundamental unifying category of black expression no longer serve well in meeting the challenges of the moment. In this respect, Warren shows that “African American literature” is a category that has not sufficiently adjusted with our current material and ideological circumstances to warrant claims to a changing present or a provisional futurity. Warren argues that the presumptions and protocols of the category remain ossified within the past, within a definition that only shows how its primary arbiters and practitioners were themselves ossified as contradictory or compromised men of their time. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) African Americans in literature. American literature African American authors History and criticism Theory, etc. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059566?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059566 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674059566/original |
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