04395nam 22006495 450 991048070860332120210716012222.00-8147-4387-010.18574/9780814743874(CKB)2550000000041915(EBL)865582(OCoLC)744354275(SSID)ssj0000525311(PQKBManifestationID)11327043(OCoLC)697261043(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525311(PQKBWorkID)10488877(PQKB)10865948(PQKBManifestationID)16121181(PQKB)21946239(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326186(MiAaPQ)EBC865582(MdBmJHUP)muse4780(DE-B1597)548330(DE-B1597)9780814743874(EXLCZ)99255000000004191520200723h20112011 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtcczRepresenting the Race A New Political History of African American Literature /Gene Andrew JarrettNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (276 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-4339-0 0-8147-4338-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211 - 248) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface and Acknowledgments --Introduction. Toward a New Political History of African American Literature --1. The Politics of Early African American Literature --2. The Intellectual Culture of Racial Politics after Slavery --3. New Negro Politics from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance --4. The Geopolitics of African American Autobiography between the World Wars --5. Copyright Law, Free Speech, and the Transformative Value of African American Literature --6. The Political Audacity of Barack Obama’s Literature --Epilogue. The Politics of African American Literature after Obama --Notes --Index --About the AuthorThe political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sort—pamphlets, autobiographies, cultural criticism, poems, short stories, and novels—to parse the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African American political activism in recent decades. He argues that unless we show the diverse and complex ways that African American literature has transformed society, political myths will continue to limit our understanding of this intellectual tradition. Cultural forums ranging from the printing press, schools, and conventions, to parlors, railroad cars, and courtrooms provide the backdrop to this African American literary history, while the foreground is replete with compelling stories, from the debate over racial genius in early American history and the intellectual culture of racial politics after slavery, to the tension between copyright law and free speech in contemporary African American culture, to the political audacity of Barack Obama’s creative writing. Erudite yet accessible, Representing the Race is a bold explanation of what’s at stake in continuing to politicize African American literature in the new millennium.African AmericansIntellectual lifePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismElectronic books.African AmericansIntellectual life.Politics and literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.810.9896073Jarrett Gene Andrewauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1038867DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480708603321Representing the Race2478064UNINA