Writing America Black : race rhetoric in the public sphere
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Writing America Black : race rhetoric in the public sphere
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture)
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-283) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Writing America Black examines the African American press and selected literary works by black authors. By viewing the journalist's role as historian, reporter, taste-maker, and propagandist, C. K. Doreski reveals the close bond to a larger African American literary tradition. Rich in cultural and historical context, this valuable 1999 study will be of interest to readers of literature, history, African American studies, American studies, and journalism.
Table of Contents
- Part I. History, Citizenship and the American Way: 1. Race progress and exemplary biography
- 2. Reading riot
- 3. Rendezvous with modernism, fascism - and democracy
- 4. If I were a Negro
- Part II. Decomposing Unities, Deconstructing National Narratives: 5. Reportage as redemption
- 6. Kinship as history
- 7. Nation-ness as consciousness
- 8. History as storytelling.
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