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Race and the Literary Encounter : Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett / Lesley Larkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larkin, Lesley.
- Series:
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- African Americans--Books and reading.
- African Americans.
- Books and reading--Social aspects--United States.
- Books and reading.
- Race in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Scenes of reading, scenes of racialization: modern and contemporary black literature
- Unbinding the double audience: James Weldon Johnson
- Speakerly reading: Zora Neale Hurston
- Close reading "You": Ralph Ellison
- Erasing precious: Sapphire and Percival Everett
- Reading and being read: Jamaica Kincaid
- Epilogue: Toward a theory and pedagogy of responsible reading: Toni Morrison.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253017871
- 0253017874
- 9780253017895
- 0253017890
- OCLC:
- 923809483
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