Designs of Blackness : : mappings in the literature and culture of Afro-America / / A. Robert Lee.
Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, New York : : Peter Lang,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | Twenty fifth anniversary edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 25th anniversary edition: perspective and memoir
- Reclamations: the early Afro-America of Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammond, Olauda Equiano and David Walker
- The stance of self-representation: African American life writing,1850s-1990s
- Harlem on my mind: fictions of a Black metropolis from Claude McKay to Darryl Pinckney
- Womanisms: the novel 1860s-1990s
- Richard Wright's inside narratives
- War and peace: writing the Black 1940s
- Black Beats: the signifying poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri, Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman
- Acting out: The Black drama of the 1960s, the 1960s of Black Drama
- Equilibrium out of their chaos: Black modernism, the postmodern, and Leon Forrest's Witherspoon-Bloodworth trilogy
- Under cover, under covers: performing race from Williams Wells Brown to Charles Johnson
- Into the twenty-first century: fiction's continuities and variations
- Into the twenty-first century: poetry's voice and echo.