LEADER 04315nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910815593103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-4387-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814743874 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041915 035 $a(EBL)865582 035 $a(OCoLC)744354275 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525311 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11327043 035 $a(OCoLC)697261043 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525311 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488877 035 $a(PQKB)10865948 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16121181 035 $a(PQKB)21946239 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865582 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4780 035 $a(DE-B1597)548330 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814743874 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041915 100 $a20110324d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acz 200 10$aRepresenting the race $ea new political history of African American literature /$fGene Andrew Jarrett 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-4339-0 311 0 $a0-8147-4338-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Toward a New Political History of African American Literature --$t1. The Politics of Early African American Literature --$t2. The Intellectual Culture of Racial Politics after Slavery --$t3. New Negro Politics from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance --$t4. The Geopolitics of African American Autobiography between the World Wars --$t5. Copyright Law, Free Speech, and the Transformative Value of African American Literature --$t6. The Political Audacity of Barack Obama?s Literature --$tEpilogue. The Politics of African American Literature after Obama --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aJarrett$b Gene Andrew$f1975-$01480475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815593103321 996 $aRepresenting the Race$94012697 997 $aUNINA