Representing the race [electronic resource] : a new political history of African American literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett.
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
2011
PS153.N5 J398 2011eb
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Title
Representing the race [electronic resource] : a new political history of African American literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett.
Author
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
ISBN
9780814743874 (electronic bk.)
9780814743386
9780814743393
9780814743409
Publication Details
New York : New York University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 263 p.)
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PS153.N5 J398 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/896073
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Toward a political history of African American literature
The politics of early African American literature
The culture of racial politics after slavery
New Negro politics from reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
The geopolitics of African American autobiography between the world wars
Copyright law, free speech, and the transformative value of African American literature
The political audacity of Barack Obama's literature
Epilogue: The politics of African American literature after Obama.

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