Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth Century African - American Writin

Informationen zum Autor Tania Friedel is a lecturer for the Expository Writing Program and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she teaches a course devoted to interrogating ideas of artistic citizenship, the public sphere, and the role of art in the world. Klappentext Engages cosmopolitanism! a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality. This title examines its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Zusammenfassung This book engages the critical mode of cosmopolitanism through racial discourse in the work of several major twentieth-century African American authors, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes and Albert Murray. Inhaltsverzeichnis Credit Lines. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism 1. Cane’s Betrayal and Jean Toomer’s Untethered Universalism 2. The "Interminable Puzzles" of Race, Class and Gender in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset 3. The Aesthetics of Particularity and the Politics of Integration: The Ways of White Folks and Langston Hughes’s Work with Common Ground in the 1940s 4. The Fine Art Tradition of Albert Murray: Democratic Elitism and Rooted Cosmopolitanism. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index

Product details

• Authors: Tania Friedel, Tania (New York University Friedel, Friedel Tania
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2007
• EAN: 9780415963558
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96355-8
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in African American History and Culture; Studies in African American History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History and Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black