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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778182903321

Autore

Posnock Ross

Titolo

Color & culture [[electronic resource] ] : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / / Ross Posnock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-674-04233-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353p.)

Disciplina

810.9896073

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786932603321

Titolo

The literary and cultural reception of Charles Darwin in Europe / / edited by Thomas F. Glick and Elinor Shaffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78093-722-9

1-78093-712-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1728 p.)

Collana

Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

Disciplina

809.034

Soggetti

American literature - English influences

Cultural relations - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Volume 3. Germany and Northern Europe -- Volume 4. France.

Sommario/riassunto

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