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What Was African American Literature?
Kenneth W. Warren
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Description for What Was African American Literature?
Paperback. African American literature is over. With this provocative claim, the author sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature - and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature-and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. ... Read more
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature-and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
231g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674066298
SKU
V9780674066298
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About Kenneth W. Warren
Kenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for What Was African American Literature?
A slight but forceful text with a pugnacious and elegantly presented thesis. Publishers Weekly 20100920 Most literary criticism today, under the sign of theory, is obscure and incomprehensible, and shies from presenting daring new ways to look at literature
when it engages with contemporary literature at all. Kenneth W. Warren's book is an example of a book of literary criticism in ... Read more
when it engages with contemporary literature at all. Kenneth W. Warren's book is an example of a book of literary criticism in ... Read more