Turning South Again - Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

"Baker offers an original blend of self-reflection, cultural inquiry, social critique, and close textual analysis of a classic book in African American history and literature. This is the most revealing study of "Up From Slavery" that I've ever seen and the most personal and self-revealing piece of writing that Baker has ever published."--William L. Andrews, author of "To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865"

Table des matières

Prologue: Blue Men, Black Writing, and Southern Revisions
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Modernism’s Performative Masquerade: Mr. Washington, Tuskegee, and Black-South Mobility

A Concluding Meditation on Plantations, Ships, and Black Modernism

Notes

Index

A propos de l'auteur

Houston A. Baker Jr.

Résumé

Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions - particularly that of incarceration - are at the centre of the African-American experience.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Baker, Houston A Baker, Houston A. Baker, Houston a. Baker
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 06.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822326861
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2686-1
• Pages: 128
• Poids: 435 g
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Unterrichten von Schülern mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf, Fachspezifischer Unterricht, Regionalstudien