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Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

Jarrett, Gene Andrew

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Literary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0814743382
ISBN13: 9780814743386
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Aug 8 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sort--pamphlets, autobiographies, cultural criticism, poems, short stories, and novels--to parse the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African American political activism in recent decades. He argues that unless we show the diverse and complex ways that African American literature has transformed society, political myths will continue to limit our understanding of this intellectual tradition.

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