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Praisesong of Survival
Richard Kenneth Barksdale
其他書名
Lectures and Essays, 1957-89
出版University of Illinois Press, 1992
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / African American & BlackSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN02520628689780252062865
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MTROGBW8NckC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Richard K Barksdale, as educator, scholar, and literary critic, is first and foremost a humanist. And so it is that his latest book, "Praisesong of Survival," traces and expounds upon the humanistic tradition in African American belle lettres from Phillis Wheatley to contemporary black women writers of the 1980s. This text links humanism to literary history and criticism and to a larger history and perspective, thereby broadening its context. First, Barksdale clearly explains the literary and historical significance of Europe to early American black writing; second, he makes clear that African American writing is the product of a certain kind of colonialism and the larger history of empire; third, he explores bridges between orature, folk culture, the poet, and the prophet. The charge to literary criticism is not to become saturated in itself as an institution but rather to engage the individual and explore human possibilities throughout history.