| Description |
vi, 246 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Black literature and culture |
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Black literature and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond -- Canon-formation, literary history, and the Afro-American tradition : from the seen to the told / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Response / Barbara E. Johnson. Response / Donald B. Gibson -- Boundaries : or distant relations and close kin / Deborah E. McDowell. Response / Hortense J. Spillers. Response / Michael Awkward -- Toward a poetics of Afro-American autobiography / William L. Andrews. Response / Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Response / Geneviève Fabre -- The first-person in Afro-American fiction / Richard Yarborough. Response / Robert B. Stepto. Response / Eleanor W. Traylor -- There is no more beautiful way : theory and the poetics of Afro-American women's writing / Houston A. Baker, Jr. Response / Mae G. Henderson. |
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Performing Blackness : re-placing Afro-American poetry / Kimberly W. Benston. Response / Cheryl A. Wall. Response / Stephen E. Henderson -- Biography and Afro-American culture / Arnold Rampersad. Response / Michel Fabre. Response / Nellie Y. McKay. Response / Robert G. O'Meally -- Afterword / Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans in literature.
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| Added Author |
Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
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Redmond, Patricia.
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| ISBN |
0226035379 alkaline paper |
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