Race and the Literary Encounter : Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett / / Lesley Larkin

• Autore: Larkin Lesley
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, [2015]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073
• Soggetto topico: Identity (Psychology) in literature; African Americans in literature; African Americans - Books and reading; Books and reading - Social aspects - United States; Race in literature; American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Race and the Literary Encounter
• ISBN: 0-253-01787-4; 0-253-01789-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818570003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II