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Author:

Richards, Phillip M., 1950-

Title:

Black heart : the moral life of recent African American letters / Phillip Richards.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xxxii, 252 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and morals--History--20th century.
African Americans in literature
Moral conditions in literature.
Ethics in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.

Contents:

Gates's cultural synthesis -- The proof of the pudding -- Gates's criticism and middle class African American tastes -- Signifying as romantic myth of origins -- Michael Eric Dyson's "I may not get there with you" -- Black criticism meets black realities -- Moll Flanders in LA -- Toni Morrison and the romance of signifying -- White patrons, black clients, and middle class apocalypse -- Theology and black literature -- Robert Hayden, the poet as cosmopolitan historian -- Earlier integrated worlds -- A Marxist humanism and literacy -- The cultural criticism of Angela Davis -- Adolph Reed : politics as gesture.

Series:

Intersections in communications and culture, 1528-610X ; v. 12

ISBN:

9780820471228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820471224 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60557391

LCCN:

2005015548

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)