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Within the Circle : An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present /
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and bla...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1994.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Voices within the circle: a historical overview of African American literary criticism
- I. The Harlem Renaissance. The new Negro / Alain Locke
- The Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite
- The gift of laughter / Jessie Fauset
- The Negro-art hokum / George S. Schuyler
- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes
- Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. DuBois
- Our literary audience / Sterling A. Brown
- Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston
- II. Humanistic-ethical criticism and the protest tradition. Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright
- American Negro literature / J. Saunders Redding
- What White publishers won't print / Zora Neale Hurston
- New poets / Margaret Walker
- Twentieth-century fiction and the Black mask of humanity / Ralph Ellison
- Everybody's protest novel / James Baldwin
- Integration and race literature / Arthur P. Davis
- III. The Black arts movement. The myth of a "Negro literature" / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
- Ethnic impact in American literature: reflections on a course / George E. Kent
- The Black arts movement / Larry Neal
- Towards a Black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller
- Cultural strangulation: Black literature and the White aesthetic / Addison Gayle,]r.
- Toward a definition: Black poetry of the Sixties (after LeRoi Jones) / Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti)
- Tripping with Black writing / Sarah Webster Fabio
- Structuralism, post-structuralism, and the African American critic. Preface to Blackness: text and pretext / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- I rose and found my voice: narration, authentication, and authorial control in four slave narratives / Robert B. Stepto
- Generational shifts and the recent criticism of Afro-American literature / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
- Literary production: a silence in Afro-American critical practice / W. Lawrence Hogue
- The race for theory / Barbara Christian
- Appropriative gestures: theory and Afro-American literary criticism / Michael Awkward
- Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature / Toni Morrison
- V. Gender, theory, and African American feminist criticism. In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker
- Toward a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith
- New directions for Black feminist criticism / Deborah E. McDowell
- "The darkened eye restored:" notes toward a literary history of Black women / Mary Helen Washington
- Mama's baby, Papa's maybe: an American grammar book / Hortense J. Spillers
- Gender and Afro-Americanist literary theory and criticism / Valerie Smith
- But what do we think we're doing anyway: the state of Black feminist criticism(s) or my version of a little bit of history / Barbara Christian
- Some implications of womanist theory / Sherley Anne Williams
- Useful sources for related reading
- Acknowledgment of copyrights
- About the critics
- Index of selected names.