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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788267903321

Autore

Watts Eric King <1963->

Titolo

Hearing the hurt [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement / / Eric King Watts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8616-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Disciplina

973.0496073

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

Harlem Renaissance

African Americans - Race identity - History - 20th century

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

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

Hearing the hurt -- Of beauty and death : W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater -- The last and best gift of Africa : Du Bois, Dewey, and the pragmatic production of a Black public -- Negro youth speaks : Alain Locke and the new Negro -- A lampblacked Anglo-Saxon : George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the nation -- All art is propaganda : the politics of a new Negro aesthetics -- Paul's committed suicide : a utopist tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the spring -- You mean you don't want me, 'Rene?" : anxiety, desire, and madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.

Sommario/riassunto

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.    Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809001303321

Autore

Harinath Silveru

Titolo

Dalit women and dropout rates in collegiate education : a study of the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh / / by Silveru Harinath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6710-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 p.)

Disciplina

305.420954

Soggetti

Dalit women - India - Andhra Pradesh - Social conditions

Dalit women - India - Andhra Pradesh

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO - REVIEW OF LITERATURE; CHAPTER THREE - COLLEGIATE EDUCATION AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF DALIT WOMEN IN PALAKURTY MANDAL; CHAPTER FOUR - DALIT WOMEN IN COLLEGIATE EDUCATION; CHAPTER FIVE - CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE

Sommario/riassunto

Caste is an inescapable aspect in terms of education in the Indian state, as it is in many other aspects of public life. Education standards have changed throughout the course of Indian history, but the subjugated Dalits, and particularly female children belonging to this caste, still face the hurdles of caste discrimination in society and in the education sector in particular. Despite introducing state education policies, the scale and size of these policies have not resulted in an increase ...