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Indiana University Press Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Name: Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett (Blacks in the Diaspora)
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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 Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the emergence of antiracist reading subjects. Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy. Review A fact never to be forgotten is that reading was prohibited for slaves, an act that 'marked literacy as a paradoxical sign of both outlaw status and freedom.' Source: AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP Review An illuminating study that promises to make significant inroads in the field of African American literary criticism and American studies. Larkin poses a series of provocative queries about the 'politics' of writing, reading, and interpreting 20th century literature by African and Caribbean American writers. Author: Salamishah Tillet Source: author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination From the Author Lesley Larkin is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Her research on race and reader ethics has appeared in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, MELUS, and Callaloo. About the Author Lesley Larkin is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Her research on race and reader ethics has appeared in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, MELUS, and Callaloo.

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Brand: Indiana University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0253017580
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 December 2015
Listed Since: 25 February 2015

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