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Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency /

"Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency collects twenty-three of Bernard W. Bell's lectures and essays that were first presented between 1968 and 2008. From his role in the culture wars as a graduate student activis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bell, Bernard W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2012.
©2012
Colección:African American life series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Every Tongue Got to Confess
  • Introduction
  • Memoir: On Becoming an African American Scholar Activist
  • 1. Double Consciousness as the Sign of African American Difference
  • I. The African American Jeremiad and Frederick Douglassâ€?s Fourth of July 1852 Speech African American Double Consciousness
  • The Sacred and Secular Origins of the American Jeremiad
  • The African American Jeremiad
  • That Most Foul and Fiendish of All Human Decrees
  • What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
  • Notes
  • 2. The Roots and Branches of the African American Literary Tradition I. The African American Literary Tradition
  • II. African American Writers
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • III. The Image of Africa in the Afro-American Novel
  • White Images of Africa in Western Culture
  • Early Images of Africa in the Afro-American Novel
  • Images of Africa in the Preâ€?World War II NovelImages of Africa in the Postâ€?World War II Novel
  • Notes
  • IV. Jean Toomerâ€?s “Blue Meridianâ€?: The Poet as Prophet of a New Order of Man
  • V. The Legacy of James Baldwin: The Artist as Redemptive Lover and Righteous Witness
  • Manchild of the Promised Land
  • Artist of Redemptive Love
  • Modern Black Writer as Righteous Witness
  • Notes