African American literary theory : a reader /
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. DuBois
- The Negro-art Hokum / G.S. Schuyler
- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / L. Hughes
- Characteristics of Negro expression / Z.N. Hurston
- Blueprint for Negro writing / R. Wright
- What White publishers won't print / Z.N. Hurston
- Self-criticism / A. Locke
- Expressive language / LeRoi Jones
- Brave words for a startling occasion / R. Ellison
- And Shine swam on / L. Neal
- The Black writer and his role / C.F. Gerald
- Some reflections on the Black aesthetic / L. Neal
- Cultural strangulation / A. Gayle, Jr.
- Inside the funk shop / S.E. Henderson
- Saturation: progress report on a theory of Black poetry / S.E. Henderson
- On the criticism of Black American literature / H.A. Baker, Jr.
- Toward a Black feminist criticism / B. Smith
- Preface to blackness / H.L. Gates, Jr.
- New directions for black feminist criticism / D.E. McDowell
- Generational shifts and the recent criticism of Afro-American literature / H.A. Baker, Jr.
- Some implications of womanist theory / S.A. Williams
- Belief, theory and Blues / H.A. Baker, Jr.
- Woman's era: rethinking Black feminist theory / H.V. Carby
- Mama's baby, papa's maybe / H.J. Spillers
- The race for theory / B. Christian
- The Black canon / J.A. Joyce
- "What's love got to do with it?": critical theory, integrity and the Black idiom / H.L. Gates, Jr.
- In dubious battle / H.A. Baker, Jr.
- "Who the cap fit": unconsciousness and unconscionableness in the criticism of Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / J.A. Joyce
- Appropriative gesture: theory and Afro-American literary criticism / Michael Awkward
- Introduction to The signifying monkey / H.L. Gates, Jr.
- Speaking in tongues / M.G. Henderson
- Black feminist theory and the representation of the "other" / V. Smith
- Revision and (re)membrance: a theory of literary structures in literature by African-American women writers / K.F.C. Holloway
- Toward a Black gay aesthetic / C.I. Nero
- Theoretical returns / H.A. Baker, Jr.
- Phallus(ies) of interpretation / A. duCille
- Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s / P.B. Harper
- The problems with silence and exclusiveness in the African American literary community / J.A. Joyce
- Black (w)holes and the geometry of Black female sexuality / E. Hammonds
- Some glances at the Black fag / M.B. Ross
- The crisis in Black American literary criticism and the postmodern cures of Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / S. Adell
- A Black man's place in Black feminist criticism / M. Awkward
- Black feminist thinking / D.E. McDowell
- "All the things you could be by now, if sigmund freud's wife was your mother": psychoanalysis and race / H.J. Spillers
- Tearing the goat's flesh: homosexuality, abjection and the production of a late twentieth-century Black masculinity / R.F. Reid-Pharr
- African signs and spirit writing / H. Mullen
- Mapping the interstices between Afro-American cultural discourse and cultural studies / W. Lubiano
- Cultural narratives passed on: African American mourning stories / K.F.C. Holloway
- Introduction to Race men: the W.E.B. DuBois lectures / H.V. Carby
- Malcolm's conk and Danto's colors; or, four logical petitions concerning race, beauty and aesthetics / P.C. Taylor.