Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual /

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In this book, Ross Posnock shows that black writers, far from being recent arrivals, were arguably the first modern American intellectuals. W.E.B. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Posnock identifie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Posnock, Ross
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
Locke, Alain, > 1885-1954.
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Language and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Black people > Intellectual life.
American literature > African American authors.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains.
Langage et culture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Noirs > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature.
Intellectual life.
Language and culture.
Amerikaans.
Schrijvers.
Intellectualisme.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Culture Has No Color
  • 1 After Identity Politics
  • 2 The Unclassified Residuum
  • 3 Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon
  • 4 The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics
  • 5 Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity
  • 6 Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston
  • 7 The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka
  • 8 Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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