Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th Anniversary Edition

ISBN-13: 9781433179532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 342 str.

A. Robert Lee

Opis

Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings - each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context.

Recenzje

"A. Robert Lee dazzles us once again with his knowledge of many different literatures. He has set a high standard for those who are bound to one tradition. Designs of Blackness is a very cogent examination of African American literature."-Ishmael Reed

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction: 25th Anniversary Edition: Perspective and Memoir - Reclamations: The Early Afro-America of Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammond, Olaudah Equiano and David Walker - The Stance of Self-Representation: African American Life Writing, 1850s-1990s - Harlem on My Mind: Fictions of a Black Metropolis from The New Negro to Darryl Pinckney - Womanisms: The Novel 1860s-1990s - Richard Wright's Inside Narratives - War and Peace: Writing the Black 1940s - Black Beats: The Signifying Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman - Acting Out: The Black Drama of the 1960s, the 1960s of Black Drama - Equilibrium Out of Their Chaos: Black Modernism, the Postmodern, and Leon Forrest's Witherspoon-Bloodworth Trilogy - Under Cover, Under Covers: Performing Race from William Wells Brown to Charles Johnson - Into the Twenty-First Century: Fiction's Continuities and Variations - Into the Twenty-First Century: Poetry's Voice and Echo - About the Author - Index.

O autorze

A. Robert Lee, formerly of the University of Kent, UK, was Professor in the English Department of Nihon University, Tokyo, 1997-2011. His publications include Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions, which won the American Book Award in 2004.