Representing the race [electronic resource] : a new political history of African American literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett.

Representing the race [electronic resource] : a new political history of African American literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett.

9780814743874 (electronic bk.)
9780814743386
9780814743393
9780814743409

New York : New York University Press, [2011]

©2011

English

1 online resource (xi, 263 pages)

PS153.N5 J398 2011eb

810.9/896073

The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race , Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sort-pamphlets, autobiographies, cultural criticism, poems, short stories, and novels-to parse the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African Amer[ican life].

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