How to Read African American Literature : Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation /

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How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen...

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Autor principal: Levy-Hussen, Aida (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]
Temas:
African American arts > Influence.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Race awareness in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Against Prohibitive Reading (On Trauma)
  • 2. For Contradiction (On Masochism)
  • 3. The Missing Archive (On Depression)
  • 4. Reading African American Literature Now
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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