Visualizing Blackness And The Creation Of The African American Literary Tradition

Author : Lena Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107659643

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Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition by Lena Hill Pdf

Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American literary history, from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison, and engages with a variety of canonical and lesser-known writers. Chapters interweave literary history, museum culture, and visual analysis of numerous illustrations with close readings of Booker T. Washington, Gwendolyn Bennett, Zora Neale Hurston, Melvin Tolson, and others. Together, these sections register the degree to which African American writers rely on vision - its modes, consequences, and insights - to demonstrate black intellectual and cultural sophistication. Hill's provocative study will interest scholars and students of African American literature and American literature more broadly.

Author : Lena Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107598648

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Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition by Lena Hill Pdf

Examines how African American writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity.

Author : Lena M. Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 110769275X

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Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition by Lena M. Hill Pdf

Author : Margo N. Crawford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119123347

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What is African American Literature? by Margo N. Crawford Pdf

After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American literature may be much more than literature written by authors who identify as "Black". What is African American Literature? focuses on feeling as form in order to show that African American literature is an archive of feelings, a tradition of the tension between uncontainable black affect and rigid historical structure. Margo N. Crawford argues that textual production of affect (such as blush, vibration, shiver, twitch, and wink) reveals that African American literature keeps reimagining a black collective nervous system. Crawford foregrounds the "idea" of African American literature and uncovers the "black feeling world" co-created by writers and readers. Rejecting the notion that there are no formal lines separating African American literature and a broader American literary tradition, Crawford contends that the distinguishing feature of African American literature is a "moodscape" that is as stable as electricity. Presenting a fresh perspective on the affective atmosphere of African American literature, this compelling text frames central questions around the "idea" of African American literature, shows the limits of historicism in explaining the mood of African American literature and addresses textual production in the creation of the African American literary tradition. Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Manifestos series, What is African American Literature? is a significant addition to scholarship in the field. Professors and students of American literature, African American literature, and Black Studies will find this book an invaluable source of fresh perspectives and new insights on America's black literary tradition.

Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009159715

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The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature by Yogita Goyal Pdf

This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers.

Author : Gregory Phipps
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030018542

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Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy by Gregory Phipps Pdf

This book charts an interdisciplinary narrative of literary pragmatism and creative democracy across the writings of African American women, from the works of nineteenth-century philosophers to the novels and short stories of Harlem Renaissance authors. The book argues that this critically neglected narrative forms a genealogy of black feminist intersectionality and a major contribution to the development of American pragmatism. Bringing together the philosophical writings of Maria Stewart, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell and the fictional works of Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, this text provides a literary pragmatist study of the archetypes, tropes, settings, and modes of resistance that populate the narrative of creative democracy. Above all, this book considers how these philosophers and authors construct democracy as a lived experience that gains meaning not through state institutions but through communities founded on relationships among black women and their shared understandings of culture, knowledge, experience, and rebellion.

Author : Aimable Twagilimana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317732310

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Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition by Aimable Twagilimana Pdf

This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the book proposes a reading of major African American writers including Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.

Author : Cindy Weinstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108422888

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Writing about Time by Cindy Weinstein Pdf

Many of the finest critics working in American literature explore the representation of time from colonial times to the present.

Author : Isabel Kalous
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839459539

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Black Travel Writing by Isabel Kalous Pdf

What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent, scrutinizes the significance of Black mobility, and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions of identity, belonging, history, and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary narratives, her study outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.

Author : Kate Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426879

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Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson by Kate Stanley Pdf

This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.

Author : Jessica Teague
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108840132

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Sound Recording Technology and American Literature by Jessica Teague Pdf

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.

Author : Paul Downes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107085299

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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature by Paul Downes Pdf

Hobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puritan sermons and poetry, founding-era political debates and representations of revolutionary and anti-slavery violence to reveal how Americans imagined the elusive possibility of a democratic sovereignty.

Author : Mary Grace Albanese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009314251

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Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature by Mary Grace Albanese Pdf

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.

Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107056671

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Failure and the American Writer by Gavin Jones Pdf

By exploring the aberrant literary styles of nineteenth-century American writers, Jones suggests failure is just as important as 'success' in US national experience.

Author : Heike Schaefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487382

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American Literature and Immediacy by Heike Schaefer Pdf

Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.