Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:What Was African American Literature?ISBN13:9780674066298ISBN10:0674066294Author:Warren, Kenneth W. (Author)Description:African American Literature Is Over With This Provocative Claim Kenneth Warren Sets Out To Identify A Distinctly African American Literature--And To Change The Terms With Which We Discuss It Rather Than Contest Other Definitions, Warren Makes A Clear And Compelling Case For Understanding African American Literature As Creative And Critical Work Written By Black Americans Within And Against The Strictures Of Jim Crow America Within These Parameters, His Book Outlines Protocols Of Reading That Best Make Sense Of The Literary Works Produced By African American Writers And Critics Over The First Two-Thirds Of The Twentieth Century In Warren's View, African American Literature Begged The Question: What Would Happen To This Literature If And When Jim Crow Was Finally Overthrown? Thus, Imagining A World Without African American Literature Was Essential To That Literature In Support Of This Point, Warren Focuses On Three Moments In The History Of Phylon, An Important Journal Of African American Culture In The Dialogues Phylon Documents, The Question Of Whether Race Would Disappear As An Organizing Literary Category Emerges As Shared Ground For Critical And Literary Practice Warren Also Points Out That While Scholarship By Black Americans Has Always Been The Province Of A Petit Bourgeois Elite, The Strictures Of Jim Crow Enlisted These Writers In A Politics That Served The Race As A Whole Finally, Warren's Work Sheds Light On The Current Moment In Which Advocates Of African American Solidarity Insist On A Past That Is More Productively Put Behind Us Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Harvard University PressPublication Date:2012-09-03Weight:0.5 lbsDimensions:0.5'' H x 8.1'' L x 5.4'' WNumber of Pages:180Language:English
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Book Title: What Was African American Literature?
Item Length: 8.4in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Kenneth w. Warren
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: American / African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Weight: 6.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
