Critical Memory - Public Spheres, African American Writing and Black Fathers and Sons

Informationen zum Autor HOUSTON A. BAKER JR. is a professor of English at Duke University. Among his honors and achievements in American letters, Baker is a past president of the Modern Language Association. His books include Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing and Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy . Klappentext Reason and cool rage converge to expose the draining tasks of reconciling white America's perception of its righteousness with its lack of relish for the truth it claims to welcome from black intellectuals and artists. Baker looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. Zusammenfassung Reason and cool rage converge to expose the draining tasks of reconciling white America’s perception of its righteousness with its lack of relish for the truth it claims to welcome from black intellectuals and artists. Baker looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life.

Product details

• Authors: Houston Baker, Houston A Baker, Houston A. Baker, Houston Baker Jr
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2001
• EAN: 9780820322407
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2240-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Georgia Southern University Ja; Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series; Georgia Southern University Ja; Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore