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Posnock Ross |
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Titolo |
Color & culture [[electronic resource] ] : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / / Ross Posnock |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
Language and culture - United States - History - 20th century |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
African Americans in literature |
Black people - Intellectual life |
Electronic books. |
United States Intellectual life 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Culture Has No Color -- 1 After Identity Politics -- 2 The Unclassified Residuum -- 3 Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon -- 4 The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics -- 5 Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity -- 6 Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston -- 7 The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka -- 8 Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This text offers a historical perspective on 'black intellectuals' as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams. These writers challenge the idea that high culture is 'white culture.' |
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