Race and the Literary Encounter : Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett /

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What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Larkin, Lesley (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Languages & Literatures.
English.
American Literature.
Race in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Books and reading > Social aspects.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Noirs americains > Livres et lecture.
Livres et lecture > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Race dans la litterature.
Books and reading > Social aspects > United States.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Scenes of reading, scenes of racialization: modern and contemporary black literature
  • Unbinding the double audience: James Weldon Johnson
  • Speakerly reading: Zora Neale Hurston
  • Close reading "You": Ralph Ellison
  • Erasing precious: Sapphire and Percival Everett
  • Reading and being read: Jamaica Kincaid
  • Epilogue: Toward a theory and pedagogy of responsible reading: Toni Morrison.

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