001478948 000__ 04891nam\a22008295i\4500 001478948 001__ 1478948 001478948 003__ DE-B1597 001478948 005__ 20231026035004.0 001478948 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478948 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478948 008__ 221201t20112012mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478948 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1302163698 001478948 020__ $$a9780674059566 001478948 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674059566$$2doi 001478948 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)583600 001478948 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1301547623 001478948 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478948 0410_ $$aeng 001478948 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478948 072_7 $$aSOC001000$$2bisacsh 001478948 08204 $$a810.9896073$$223 001478948 1001_ $$aWarren, Kenneth W., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478948 24510 $$aWhat Was African American Literature? /$$cKenneth W. Warren. 001478948 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011] 001478948 264_4 $$c©2012 001478948 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) 001478948 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478948 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478948 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478948 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478948 4900_ $$aThe W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 001478948 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$t1. Historicizing African American Literature -- $$t2. Particularity and the Problem of Interpretation -- $$t3. The Future of the Past -- $$tConclusion: The Past in the Present -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001478948 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478948 520__ $$aWarren argues, quite bluntly, that "African American literature" has outlived its relevance as the dominant category for poetry, fiction, and plays written by African Americans. Contradicting an influential portion of the field, which regards this literature as an emanation of vernacular expression going back to slavery, and even to Africa, Warren asserts that African American literature was the body of literature and criticism written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. In arguing against the continued relevance of the category of African American literature, Warren is certainly not claiming that racism has ceased to exist. Rather, he says that while it continues to make a great difference in African American life, other social and political factors weigh heavily also - so much so that categories which take race as the fundamental unifying category of black expression no longer serve well in meeting the challenges of the moment. In this respect, Warren shows that "African American literature" is a category that has not sufficiently adjusted with our current material and ideological circumstances to warrant claims to a changing present or a provisional futurity. Warren argues that the presumptions and protocols of the category remain ossified within the past, within a definition that only shows how its primary arbiters and practitioners were themselves ossified as contradictory or compromised men of their time. 001478948 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478948 546__ $$aIn English. 001478948 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 001478948 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in literature. 001478948 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism$$xTheory, etc. 001478948 650_7 $$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.$$2bisacsh 001478948 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478948 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$z9783110442212 001478948 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478948 852__ $$bebk 001478948 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059566$$zOnline Access 001478948 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478948$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478948 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478948 912__ $$a978-3-11-044221-2 HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$c1893$$d1999 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_CL_SN 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_SN 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478948 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478948 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478948 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478948 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478948 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478948 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478948 980__ $$aBIB 001478948 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478948 982__ $$aEbook 001478948 983__ $$aOnline