Representing the race : a new political history of African American literature

Representing the race : a new political history of African American literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett.

The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop...

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Main Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > United States > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African Americans > Intellectual life
American literature > African American authors
Politics and literature
Literatur.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Politik.
Schwarze.
Amerikansk litteratur > historia.
Afro-amerikanska författare.
Litteratur och politik.
Afro-amerikaner.
Intellektuellt liv.
United States
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a political history of African American literature
  • The politics of early African American literature
  • The intellectual culture of racial politics after slavery
  • New Negro politics from reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
  • The geopolitics of African American autobiography between the world wars
  • Copyright law, free speech, and the transformative value of African American literature
  • The political audacity of Barack Obama's literature
  • Epilogue: The politics of African American literature after Obama.

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