Afro-American literary study in the 1990s / edited by Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943- editor.

Redmond, Patricia.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Black literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 246 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Summary:

Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."--"Choice." "This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."--"Voice Literary Supplement"

Contents:

Introduction / Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond

Canon-formation, literary history, and the Afro-American tradition: from the seen to the told / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Response / Barbara E. Johnson. Response / Donald B. Gibson

Boundaries: or distant relations and close kin / Deborah E. McDowell. Response / Hortense J. Spillers. Response / Michael Awkward

Toward a poetics of Afro-American autobiography / William L. Andrews. Response / Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Response / Geneviève Fabre

The first-person in Afro-American fiction / Richard Yarborough. Response / Robert B. Stepto. Response / Eleanor W. Traylor

There is no more beautiful way: theory and the poetics of Afro-American women's writing / Houston A. Baker, Jr. Response / Mae G. Henderson

Performing Blackness: re/placing Afro-American poetry / Kimberly W. Benston. Response / Cheryl A. Wall. Response / Stephen E. Henderson

Biography and Afro-American culture / Arnold Rampersad. Response / Michel Fabre. Response / Nellie Y. McKay. Response / Robert G. O'Meally

Afterword / Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond.

Notes:

"Paperback edition 1992."

"The essays collected in this volume constitute the proceedings of a three-day conference held in April 1987 for leading scholars of Afro-American literature. Sponsored by the Albert M. Greenfield professorship and the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania ..."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0226035433

9780226035437

0226035379

9780226035376

OCLC:

25985938