Black American literature and humanism /
For Black writers, what is tradition? What does it mean to them that Western humanism has excluded Black culture? Seven noted Black writers and critics take up these and other questions in this collection of original essays, attempting to redefine humanism from a Black perspective, to free it from e...
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky
©2015.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt130hqbf |
Aurkibidea:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Knowing the Human Condition; Langston Hughes: His Times and His Humanistic Techniques; My Poetic Technique and the Humanization of the American Audience; Angelic Dance or Tug of War? The Humanistic Implications of Cultural Formalism; Three Black Women Writers and Humanism: A Folk Perspective; Aesthetic Values in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks; ""Does Man Love Art?"" The Humanistic Aesthetic of Gwendolyn Brooks; Contributors.