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Black Literature and Literary Theoryby Gates
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Book DescriptionNew York, New York: Routledge, 1990 Brand New. Paperback. Brand New. Publisher NotesThe imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In truth, however, black literature not only has a complex relation to the canon but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical strategies even more than it echoes black vernacular form....What implications does this have for contemporary literary theory and for practical criticism of black texts?....Essays by Anthony Appiah, Houston Baker, and Barbara Johnson on writers such as Ralph Ellison, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Ishmael Reed. This book is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of black literary theory, on the one hand, and the features of black literary practice, on the other. "Black Literature and Literary Theory is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature."--W. Mitchell, University of Chicago Other Recommended Books
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