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UNINA9910778182903321 |
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Posnock Ross |
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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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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 |
United States Intellectual life 20th century |
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index. |
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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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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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UNINA9910786932603321 |
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The literary and cultural reception of Charles Darwin in Europe / / edited by Thomas F. Glick and Elinor Shaffer |
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London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-78093-722-9 |
1-78093-712-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1728 p.) |
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Collana |
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Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe |
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American literature - English influences |
Cultural relations - England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Volume 3. Germany and Northern Europe -- Volume 4. France. |
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Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes an extensive timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and b |
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