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African American literature in transition, 1980-1990 / edited by D. Quentin Miller, Rich Blint.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990' tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsiders conventional temporal, spatial, and moral understandings of how African American letters emerged immediately after the movement James Baldwin describes as the 'latest slave rebellion'.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 28, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781009179355
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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