02976oam 22006254a 450 991081857000332120240418112349.00-253-01787-40-253-01789-0(CKB)3710000000485602(SSID)ssj0001555999(PQKBManifestationID)16179734(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001555999(PQKBWorkID)13597752(PQKB)10800279(OCoLC)923809483(MdBmJHUP)muse50601(MiAaPQ)EBC4012076(EXLCZ)99371000000048560220150827h20152016 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrRace and the Literary Encounter Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett /Lesley Larkin1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Press[2015]1 online resourceBlacks in the diasporaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-253-01758-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Scenes of reading, scenes of racialization: modern and contemporary black literature -- Unbinding the double audience: James Weldon Johnson -- Speakerly reading: Zora Neale Hurston -- Close reading "You": Ralph Ellison -- Erasing precious: Sapphire and Percival Everett -- Reading and being read: Jamaica Kincaid -- Epilogue: Toward a theory and pedagogy of responsible reading: Toni Morrison.Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy.Identity (Psychology) in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureAfrican AmericansBooks and readingBooks and readingSocial aspectsUnited StatesRace in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismIdentity (Psychology) in literature.African Americans in literature.African AmericansBooks and reading.Books and readingSocial aspectsRace in literature.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.810.9/896073Larkin Lesley1642325MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910818570003321Race and the Literary Encounter3986943UNINA