Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters

ISBN-13: 9780820471228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str.

McCarthy, Cameron

Opis

Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in African American literary culture a process that has left contemporary black academic criticism socially, politically, and culturally hollow. Exploring the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael Dyson, Karla Holloway and others, Black Heart sets forth the rhetorical strategies of present-day African American critical writing, and probes the ethical dimensions of its institutional life in the academy, the media, and the public sphere. Richards undertakes to recover the procedures by which cultural and moral value may be recovered for black literary culture and to establish the possibilities for a new humanism in African American writing and literary culture."

O autorze

The Author: Phillip M. Richards is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He received a Ph.D. in English and American literature from the University of Chicago. His scholarship, literary criticism, and journalism have been published in a number of professional journals and magazines.