The Blackademic Life : Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual /

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This book critically examines academic fictions produced by black writers. The author evaluates academic literature as a space for Black writers to produce counternarratives that celebrate the potentials of Black intelligence and argue for the importance of Black higher education, particularly in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Lavelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges in literature.
Education, Higher, in literature.
College teachers in literature.
College stories, American.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Recits d'etudiants americains > Histoire et critique.
Universites dans la litterature.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
College stories, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Blackademic lives matter
  • The overeducation of the Negro: on reading black academic fiction
  • Educating and uplifting the race, 1876-1919
  • The new Negro, 1919-1954
  • Integration and nationalism, 1954-1980
  • Culture wars and capitalism, 1980-present
  • Conclusion: Blackademics on-screen.

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