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Author:

Watkins, Rychetta.

Title:

Black power, yellow power, and the making of revolutionary identities / Rychetta Watkins.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 190 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Relations with Asian Americans.
Black power--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
Asian Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Black power in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-186) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: developing a critical perspective on power in literature -- Translating Fanon: Black and yellow power as American anticolonialisms -- From gorilla to guerilla: defining revolutionary identity -- Power and the ivory tower: academics as intellectual guerillas -- Reading resistance: the guerilla in literature -- Promise vs. praxis: the legacies of power.

ISBN:

1617031623 (ebook)
9781617031625 (ebook)
1617031615 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781617031618 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)719863499

LCCN:

2011028923

Locations:

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