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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America

Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America

Mostern, Kenneth

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Series: Cultural Margins, Book 7

Literary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0521646790
ISBN13: 9780521646796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 13 1999
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories such as colored, Negro, black or African American in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks. Mostern shows how these autobiographical narratives attempt to construct and transform the political meanings of blackness. This wide-ranging study will interest all those working in African American Studies, cultural studies and literary theory.

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