The Art of the Black Essay
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2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96383-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96383-2 (ISBN)
The Art of the Black Essay unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers, to catapult them beyond racial ideology - by immersing them in it - and to elicit in them, ultimately, democratic change. This title outlines the specific tools of the trade, literary techniques through which the democratization process works: the uncanny, meditative moment of transcendency. This title also describes a psychological journey experienced by the essayist him/herself. Essay writing or life-writing is the vehicle to release the pull of ideology - the root of the "hierarchy of race" idea. In this book, the author makes a clear distinction between race as biology and race as ideology in order to align race with the culture, values, traditions and art of a people. The Art of theBlack Essay shows how African American essayists have transcended the pull of two cultural identities and achieved democratic change.
Cheryl Butler
I. Introduction
II. W.E.B. DuBois: Ideology and the Hybridity of Intentionality
III. James Baldwin: Voice of Prophesy
IV. Alice Walker: Beyond Race to Creation
V. Casting Stones, Dodging Bullets: Stanley Crouch & the Black Essay
VI. Super-literacy: Transcendence & Beyond
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in African American History and Culture |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-96383-6 / 1138963836 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-96383-2 / 9781138963832 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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