Houston A Baker: Long Black Song

Cover: 9780813913018 | Long Black Song | Essays in Black American Literature and Culture

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Beschreibung

Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledge of this tradition is essential to the understanding of any individual black author or work. To deomonstrate the continuity of this tradition, Baker examines themes that appear in folklore and persist throughout contemporary black literature. "Freedom and Apocalypse," for example, traces the idea that black Americans are a chosen people who will, by some violent means, overthrow the white man's tyranny.
The essays culminate in an examination of the life and work of Richard Wright. Baker's treatment of Wright as a black American artist who recorded the black man's shift from an agrarian to an urban setting places Wright and the tradition of black literature and culture in a fresh perspective.

Über den Autor

Houston A. Baker, Jr. is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of Black Literature in America and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son.

Details

Empfohlen (von):	22
Erscheinungsjahr:	1990
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780813913018
ISBN-10:	0813913012
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Baker, Houston A
Hersteller:	University of Virginia Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Houston A Baker
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.10.1990
Gewicht:	0,281 kg