F.B. Eyes : : How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature / / William J. Maxwell.
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Maxwell, William J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut F.B. Eyes : How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature / William J. Maxwell. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (384 p.) : 10 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One/Thesis One. The Birth of the Bureau, Coupled with the Birth of J. Edgar Hoover, Ensured the FBI's Attention to African American Literature -- Part Two/Thesis Two. The FBI's Aggressive Filing and Long Study of African American Writers Was Tightly Bound to the Agency's Successful Evolution under Hoover -- Part Three/Thesis Three. The FBI Is Perhaps the Most Dedicated and Influential Forgotten Critic of African American Literature -- Part Four/Thesis Four. The FBI Helped to Define the Twentieth-Century Black Atlantic, Both Blocking and Forcing Its Flows -- Part Five/Thesis Five. Consciousness of FBI Ghostreading Fills a Deep and Characteristic Vein of African American Literature -- Appendix: FOIA Requests for FBI Files on African American Authors Active from 1919 to 1972 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century.Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship.Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature. 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 29. Jul 2021) American literature African American authors History and criticism. American literature 20th century History and cricitism. American literature 20th century History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. bisacsh African American literature. African American writers. African American writing. Afro-modernism. Afro-modernists. American espionage. Black Power. CIA. Central Intelligence Agency. Chester Himes. FBI surveillance. FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Harlem Renaissance. J. Edgar Hoover. Richard Wright. William Gardner Smith. anti-New Negroism. black literature. black protest. black transnationalism. black women. black writing. counterliterature. federalism. ghostreading. political unrest. protest. self-censorship. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691130200 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852062?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400852062 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400852062.jpg |
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