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Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
Lesley Larkin
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Hardback. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, a race of readers that understands itself to be `universal' or race-free ? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the ... Read more
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, a race of readers that understands itself to be `universal' or race-free ? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Blacks in the Diaspora
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253017581
SKU
V9780253017581
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About Lesley Larkin
Lesley Larkin is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Her research on race and reader ethics has appeared in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, MELUS, and Callaloo.
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A fact never to be forgotten is that reading was prohibited for slaves, an act that 'marked literacy as a paradoxical sign of both outlaw status and freedom.'
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