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03351aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 92B65B7EAC3B11E48C2CF5F2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150204010046 008 141230s2015 njua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2014933936 020 $a 9780691130200 020 $a 0691130205 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d OCLCO $d ZS3 $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS153.N5 $b M39 2015 082 04 $a 810.9/896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Maxwell, William J. 245 10 $a F.B. eyes : $b how J. Edgar Hoover's ghostreaders framed African American literature / $c William J. Maxwell. 246 3 $a FBIs 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xiv, 367 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century. Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship. Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature."--Publisher description. 610 10 $a United States. $b Federal Bureau of Investigation $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x African American authors $y 20th century. 941 $a 8 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724072912.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716061740.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017023640.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010015010.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044638.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717025819.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826104628.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20151223010446.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=92B65B7EAC3B11E48C2CF5F2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search