African American Literary Theory : A Reader

Winston Napier

ISBN 10: 0814758096 / ISBN 13: 9780814758090

Editore: New York University Press Jul 2000, 2000

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Neuware - African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period.

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• Titolo: African American Literary Theory : A Reader
• Editore: New York University Press Jul 2000
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814758096
• ISBN 13: 9780814758090
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 240 L x 167 A x 49 P (millimetri) 240 millimetri di larghezza per 167 millimetri di altezza per 49 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1236 grammi

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"African American Literary Theory is an extraordinary gift to literary studies. It is necessary, authoritative and thorough. The timing of this book is superb!"
—Karla F.C. Holloway, Duke University
"The influence of African American literature can be attributed, in no small part, to the literary theorists gathered in this collection. This is a superb anthology that represents a diversity of voices and points of view, and a much needed historical retrospective of how African American literary theory has developed."
—Marlon B. Ross, University of Michigan
"A volume of great conceptual significance and originality in its focus on the development of African American literary theory."
—Farah Jasmine Griffin, University of Pennsylvania
African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period.
By constantly bringing attention to the larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of literary texts, the critics gathered here have contributed mightily to the prominence and popularity of African American literature in this country and abroad. African American Literary Theory provides a unique historical analysis of how these thinkers have shaped literary theory, and literature at large, and will be a indispensable text for the study of African American intellectual culture.
Contributors include Sandra Adell, Michael Awkward, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Hazel V. Carby, Barbara Christian, W.E.B. DuBois, Ann duCille, Ralph Ellison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Addison Gayle Jr., Carolyn F. Gerald, Evelynn Hammonds, Phillip Brian Harper, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, Stephen E. Henderson, Karla F.C. Holloway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Joyce A. Joyce, Alain Locke, Wahneema Lubiano, Deborah E. McDowell, Harryette Mullen, Larry Neal, Charles I. Nero, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Marlon B. Ross, George S. Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Sherley Anne Williams, and Richard Wright.

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This text documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s to the present. It brings attention to larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of texts, offering a historical analysis of how literary theory was shaped.