Color & culture : black writers and the making of the modern intellectual

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Color & culture : black writers and the making of the modern intellectual

Ross Posnock

Harvard University Press, 1998

  • : pbk

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Color and culture

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780674003798

内容説明

The coining of the term "intellectuals" in 1898 coincided with W. E. B. Du Bois's effort to disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the color line. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Color and Culture identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. The book offers a much needed and startlingly new historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century-from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke, from Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin to Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is "white culture" and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual. The remarkable tradition that this book recaptures, culminating in a cosmopolitan disregard for demands for racial "authenticity" and group solidarity, is strikingly at odds with the identity politics and multicultural movements of our day. In the Du Boisian tradition Ross Posnock identifies a universalism inseparable from the particular and open to ethnicity-an approach with the power to take us beyond the provincialism of postmodern tribalism.

目次

Introduction: Culture Has No Color 1. After Identity Politics 2. The Unclassified Residuum 3. Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon 4. The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics 5. Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity 6. Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston 7. The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka 8. Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy Notes Works Cited Index
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ISBN 9780674143098

内容説明

The coining of the term "intellectuals" in 1898 coincided with W.E.B. Du Bois's effort to disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the colour line. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that this text identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. This text offers an historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chestnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is "white culture"; and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual.

目次

  • Introduction - culture has no colour
  • after identity politics
  • the unclassified residuum
  • black intellectuals and other oxymorons - Du Bois and Fanon
  • the distinction of Du Bois - aesthetics, pragmatism and politics
  • divine anarchy - Du Bois and the craving for modernity
  • motley mixtures - Locke, Ellison, Hurston
  • the agon black intellectual - Baldwin and Baraka
  • cosmopolitan collage -Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy.

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