LEADER 02976oam 22006254a 450 001 9910818570003321 005 20240418112349.0 010 $a0-253-01787-4 010 $a0-253-01789-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000485602 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001555999 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16179734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001555999 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13597752 035 $a(PQKB)10800279 035 $a(OCoLC)923809483 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse50601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4012076 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000485602 100 $a20150827h20152016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace and the Literary Encounter $eBlack Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett /$fLesley Larkin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d[2015] 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aBlacks in the diaspora 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-253-01758-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aAnalyzing 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. 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xBooks and reading 606 $aBooks and reading$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xBooks and reading. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xSocial aspects 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aLarkin$b Lesley$01642325 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818570003321 996 $aRace and the Literary Encounter$93986943 997 $aUNINA