On Freedom and the Will to Adorn : The Art of the African American Essay /

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"Beginning with the sermons, orations, and writing of nineteenth-century men and women like Frederick Douglass who laid the foundation for the African American essay, Wall examines the genre's evolution through the Harlem Renaissance. She then turns her attention to four writers she regard...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wall, Cheryl A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Schwarze
Essay
Essay.
African American authors.
Essayists.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Essai (Genre litteraire)
Essayistes > États-Unis.
Écrivains noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Essayists > United States.
African American authors > History and criticism.
USA.
United States.
Essais.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
essays.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. Moving from the margins
  • On freedom and the will to adorn: the African American essay
  • Voices of thunder: nineteenth-century black oratory and the development of the African American essay
  • On art and such: debating aesthetics during the Harlem Renaissance
  • Stranger at home: James Baldwin on what it means to be an American
  • The mystery of American identity: Ralph Ellison
  • On women, rights, and writing: June Jordan and Alice Walker
  • Epilogue. Essaying in the digital age.

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