F.B. Eyes : : How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature / / William J. Maxwell.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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