Deans and Truants : : Race and Realism in African American Literature / / Gene Andrew Jarrett.
For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...
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Jarrett, Gene Andrew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Deans and Truants : Race and Realism in African American Literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2007 1 online resource (232 p.) : 7 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Problem of African American Literature -- Chapter 1. "Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed" -- Chapter 2. "We Must Write Like the White Men" -- Chapter 3. "The Conventional Blindness of the Caucasian Eye" -- Chapter 4. "The Impress of Nationality Rather than Race" -- Chapter 5. ''A Negro Peoples' Movement in Writing" -- Chapter 6. "The Race Problem Was Not a Theme for Me" -- Chapter 7. ''A-World-in-Which-Race-Does-Not-Matter" -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal and, at times, obscurity. From the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, de facto deans-critics and authors as different as William Howells, Alain Locke, Richard Wright, and Amiri Baraka-prescribed the shifting parameters of realism and racial subject matter appropriate to authentic African American literature, while truant authors such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, George S. Schuyler, Frank Yerby, and Toni Morrison-perhaps the most celebrated African American author of the twentieth century-wrote literature anomalous to those standards.Jarrett explores the issues at stake when Howells, the "Dean of American Letters," argues in 1896 that only Dunbar's "entirely black verse," written in dialect, "would succeed." Three decades later, Locke, the cultural arbiter of the Harlem Renaissance, stands in contrast to Schuyler, a journalist and novelist who questions the existence of a peculiarly black or "New Negro" art. Next, Wright's 1937 blueprint for African American writing sets the terms of the Chicago Renaissance, but Yerby's version of historical romance approaches race and realism in alternative literary ways. Finally, Deans and Truants measures the gravitational pull of the late 1960s Black Aesthetic in Baraka's editorial silence on Toni Morrison's first and only short story, "Recitatif."Drawing from a wealth of biographical, historical, and literary sources, Deans and Truants describes the changing notions of race, politics, and gender that framed and were framed by the authors and critics of African American culture for more than a century. Issued also in print. 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 24. Apr 2022) African American aesthetics. African Americans in literature. African Americans Intellectual life. American literature African American authors History and criticism. American literature African American authors. Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812239737 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202359 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202359 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812202359/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Problem of African American Literature -- Chapter 1. "Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed" -- Chapter 2. "We Must Write Like the White Men" -- Chapter 3. "The Conventional Blindness of the Caucasian Eye" -- Chapter 4. "The Impress of Nationality Rather than Race" -- Chapter 5. ''A Negro Peoples' Movement in Writing" -- Chapter 6. "The Race Problem Was Not a Theme for Me" -- Chapter 7. ''A-World-in-Which-Race-Does-Not-Matter" -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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