Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / / Ross Posnock
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Posnock Ross
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| Titolo: |
Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / / Ross Posnock
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-674-04233-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807729703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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