Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature

Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
Title Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature PDF eBook
Author Houston A. Baker
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 240
Release 1987-02-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0226035387

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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature

Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
Title Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature PDF eBook
Author Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 295
Release 1984
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780226035369

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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

Afro-American Poetics

Afro-American Poetics
Title Afro-American Poetics PDF eBook
Author Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 220
Release 1988
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780299115043

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Baker envisages the mission of black culture since the 1920s as "Afro-American spirit work." In the blues, the post-modernist "chant poem," the oratory of Malcolm X and the political plays of Amiri Baraka, Baker notes the unfolding creation of a "racial epic" in which black Americans may discover their place in U.S. society and find their ancestral roots. He analyzes Jean Toomer's stream-of-consciousness protest novel Cane, ponders why apolitical poet Countee Cullen became a voice of the people and pays tribute to critic-poet Larry Neal and to Hoyt Fuller, the editor of Negro Digest who allied himself with the Black Arts movement. He also traces his own shift from "guerrilla theater revolutionary" to embattled theoretician. ISBN 0-299-11500-3: $22.50 (For use only in the library).

Burnin' Down the House

Burnin' Down the House
Title Burnin' Down the House PDF eBook
Author Valerie Sweeney Prince
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 167
Release 2005
Genre Education
ISBN 0231134401

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-- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University

The Signifying Monkey

The Signifying Monkey
Title The Signifying Monkey PDF eBook
Author Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 353
Release 2014
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0195136470

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A groundbaking work of enduring influence. The Signifying Monkey illuminates the relationship between the African and African American vernacular traditions and literature. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. This superb twenty-fifth-anniversary edition features a new preface and introduction by Gates that reflect on the book's genesis and its continuing relevance for today's culture, as well as a new afterword written by the noted critic W.J.T. Mitchell. --Book Jacket.

Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction

Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction
Title Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction PDF eBook
Author A. Yemisi Jimoh
Publisher Univ. of Tennessee Press
Pages 300
Release 2002
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781572331723

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Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers. Conventional close readings of texts, she argues, often miss historical-sociopolitical discourses that can illuminate African American narratives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Heroism and the Black Intellectual

Heroism and the Black Intellectual
Title Heroism and the Black Intellectual PDF eBook
Author Jerry Gafio Watts
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 184
Release 1994
Genre History
ISBN

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Focusing on his essays written after Invisible Man, explores how Ellison tried to establish himself as an American intellectual in a social climate that marginalized both blacks and creative pursuits, and forced him into the forms of a white discourse that progressively alienated him from his own people. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR