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Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / / Ross Posnock



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Autore: Posnock Ross Visualizza persona
Titolo: Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / / Ross Posnock Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353p.)
Disciplina: 810.9896073
Soggetto topico: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
Language and culture - United States - History - 20th century
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
African Americans - Intellectual life
African Americans in literature
Blacks - Intellectual life
Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life 20th century
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Culture Has No Color -- 1 After Identity Politics -- 2 The Unclassified Residuum -- 3 Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon -- 4 The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics -- 5 Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity -- 6 Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston -- 7 The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka -- 8 Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This text offers a historical perspective on 'black intellectuals' as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams. These writers challenge the idea that high culture is 'white culture.'
Altri titoli varianti: Color and culture
Titolo autorizzato: Color & culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-04233-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807729703321
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