Race and the Literary Encounter - Black Literature From James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Scenes of Reading, Scenes of Racialization: Modern and Contemporary Black Literature

1. Unbinding the Double Audience: James Weldon Johnson

2. Speakerly Reading: Zora Neale Hurston

3. Close Reading "You": Ralph Ellison

4. Erasing Precious: Sapphire and Percival Everett

5. Reading and Being Read: Jamaica Kincaid

Epilogue: Toward a Theory and Pedagogy of Responsible Reading: Toni Morrison

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Larkin
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780253017581
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01758-1
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies