African American Literary Theory: A Reader by Napier, Winston

African American Literary Theory: A Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814758106)

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African American Literary Theory: A Reader by Napier, Winston

African American Literary Theory: A Reader

$35.00
African American Literary Theory: A Reader by Napier, Winston

African American Literary Theory: A Reader

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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The first volume to expound African American literary theory from the 1920s to present

African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period.

By constantly bringing attention to the larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of literary texts, the critics gathered here have contributed mightily to the prominence and popularity of African American literature in this country and abroad. African American Literary Theory provides a unique historical analysis of how these thinkers have shaped literary theory, and literature at large, and will be a indispensable text for the study of African American intellectual culture.

Contributors include Sandra Adell, Michael Awkward, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Hazel V. Carby, Barbara Christian, W.E.B. DuBois, Ann duCille, Ralph Ellison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Addison Gayle Jr., Carolyn F. Gerald, Evelynn Hammonds, Phillip Brian Harper, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, Stephen E. Henderson, Karla F.C. Holloway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Joyce A. Joyce, Alain Locke, Wahneema Lubiano, Deborah E. McDowell, Harryette Mullen, Larry Neal, Charles I. Nero, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Marlon B. Ross, George S. Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Sherley Anne Williams, and Richard Wright.

Author: Winston Napier
ISBN-10: 081475810X
ISBN-13: 9780814758106
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2000
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 763
Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2001 pg. 52

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