Street Text And Representation In African American Literature
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| Author | : Mattius Rischard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : African Americans in literature |
| ISBN | : 9781032457178 |
"Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists from the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life. Divided into three sections, this text analyzes the content, style, and ethics of "street" narrative through a discursive/rhetorical lens, exploring the development of street literature's formal and contextual concerns to answer the sociocultural and political questions surrounding cultural work. The book also gives emphasis to "text" or literary/(post)structural analysis, answering the questions about the genre's aesthetic and linguistic tactics necessitated as a response to the strategies of urban planning. The last section, "representation," investigates the phenomenological hermeneutics of street literature, highlighting the political stakes for authorship, credibility, and subjectivity. Through historical and contemporary studies of urban space, Blackness, and adaptations of street literature, this work provides an performative engagement between networks of support in the greater reading public and the ontology of the inner city"--
| Author | : Mattius Rischard |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2024-05-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1040006183 |
Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life. Divided into three chapters, this text analyzes the content, style, and ethics of “street” narrative through a discursive/rhetorical lens, exploring the development of street literature’s formal and contextual concerns to resolve the sociocultural and political questions surrounding cultural work. The book also gives emphasis to “text” or (post)structural literary analysis by answering questions about the genre’s aesthetic and linguistic techniques that respond to the injustices of urban planning. The last chapter, “Representation,” investigates the phenomenological hermeneutics of more recent street literature and its satire, highlighting the political stakes for authorship, credibility, and subjectivity. Through historical and contemporary studies of urban space, Blackness, and adaptations of street literature, this work attempts to network activists, artists, and scholars with the greater reading public by providing a functional ontology of reading the inner city.
| Author | : Mattius Rischard |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2024-05-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1040006205 |
Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life. Divided into three chapters, this text analyzes the content, style, and ethics of “street” narrative through a discursive/rhetorical lens, exploring the development of street literature’s formal and contextual concerns to resolve the sociocultural and political questions surrounding cultural work. The book also gives emphasis to “text” or (post)structural literary analysis by answering questions about the genre’s aesthetic and linguistic techniques that respond to the injustices of urban planning. The last chapter, “Representation,” investigates the phenomenological hermeneutics of more recent street literature and its satire, highlighting the political stakes for authorship, credibility, and subjectivity. Through historical and contemporary studies of urban space, Blackness, and adaptations of street literature, this work attempts to network activists, artists, and scholars with the greater reading public by providing a functional ontology of reading the inner city.
| Author | : Yoshinobu Hakutani |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780838635650 |
More recent African-American literature has also been noteworthy for its largely affirmative vision of urban life. Amiri Baraka's 1981 essay "Black Literature and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice" argues that, from the Harlem Renaissance onward, African-American literature has been "urban shaped," producing a uniquely "black urban consciousness." And Toni Morrison, although stressing that the American city in general has often induced a sense of alienation in many African-American writers, nevertheless adds that modern African-American literature is suffused with an "affection" for "the village within" the city.
| Author | : Lauren Colleen Hollingsworth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : African Americans in literature |
| ISBN | : |
This project began with the intention to examine the connection between the aesthetic and the political in American literature's construction of African-American subjectivity, or the relationship between resistance and representation in literary portrayals of the African-American subject. I was specifically interested in the moments in American literature where the convergence between aesthetic form and political practice creates a particular crisis in representation for African-American subjectivity, many times rendering scholarly discussion of these problematic texts dismissive of their purported politics, or even non-existent. Some of the questions I wanted to grapple with included how one accounts for texts that have "good politics" in mind when written, yet still possess racist or "bad political" aspects through the manner in which they are presented, and the manner in which the subject position of the author affects our perception of the text.
| Author | : W. Lawrence Hogue |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0791487008 |
In this wide-ranging analysis, W. Lawrence Hogue argues that African American life and history is more diverse than even African American critics generally acknowledge. Focusing on literary representations of African American males in particular, Hogue examines works by James Weldon Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Charles Wright, Nathan Heard, Clarence Major, James Earl Hardy, and Don Belton to see how they portray middle-class, Christian, subaltern, voodoo, urban, jazz/blues, postmodern, and gay African American cultures. Hogue shows that this polycentric perspective can move beyond a "racial uplift" approach to African American literature and history and help paint a clearer picture of the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
| Author | : Zachary McLeod Hutchins |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2021-12-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1469665611 |
With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period. Brief introductions preceding each text provide historical context and genre-specific interpretive prompts to foreground their significance. Included here are transcriptions from manuscript sources and colonial newspapers as well as forgotten texts. The Earliest African American Literatures will change the way that students and scholars conceive of early American literature and the role of black Africans in the formation of that literature.
| Author | : Ayesha K. Hardison |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2014-05-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813935946 |
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers also addressed the effects of "Jane Crow," the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Richard Wright as well as the writings of neglected figures like Curtis Lucas, Pauli Murray, and Era Bell Thompson. By shifting her focus from the canonical works of male writers who dominated the period, the author recovers the work of black women writers. Hardison shows how their texts anticipated the renaissance of black women’s writing in later decades and initiates new conversations on the representation of women in texts by black male writers. She draws on a rich collection of memoirs, music, etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and tensions of the era. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
| Author | : Nazera Sadiq Wright |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2016-09-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 025209901X |
Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship.
| Author | : Shahara'Tova V. Dente |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
| ISBN | : |
In "Creeping into the Conversation", I examine canonical texts from the African American Literary Tradition, including Ann Petry's The Street (1946) and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970), alongside contemporary, oft marginalized novels, including Sapphire's PUSH (1997), and Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever (1999). This project considers literal and figurative streets as historical markers of class, race, and socio-economic status, but also as a link between literary periods. Placing canonical literature in the same conversations as "street literature" and Hip Hop literature is a way to diversify critical conversations in contemporary African American literature. Embracing street literature and Hip Hop literature as parts of a larger critical conversation provides a lens through which one can examine the cultural, racial, and political impacts they have in popular culture and in academia. "Creeping into the Conversation" is an intertextual study which showcases diverse conversations among texts across a large trajectory of African American literature. These diverse conversations give fresh insight to texts already considered mainstays in African American literature. Additionally, these intertextual analyses bring more contemporary narratives and authors into academic discourses. On the whole, "Creeping into the Conversation" bridges the gap between the critical and the literary in contemporary African American literature.
