UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Humanities and Education » English » EN0043 » AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY THEORY: A READER
Model: EN0043
ISBN: 9780814758106
Authors: NAPIER, WINSTON
Publishers: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $4,400.00JMD
Out of stock
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
Reviews
ISBN: 9780814758106
Author: Napier, winston
Publisher: New york university press

African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period. By constantly bringing attention to larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of literary texts, the critics gathered here have contributed mightily to the prominence and popularity of African American literature in this country and abroad. African American Literary Theory provides a unique historical analysis of how these thinkers have shaped literary theory, and literature at large, and will be a indispensable text for the study of African American intellectual culture.