What Was African American Literature?

(Part of the The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Series)

by Kenneth W. Warren

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African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature--and to change the terms with which we discuss it.

Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674066294

ISBN13:9780674066298

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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