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Key Texts in African American Literary Criticism

出版	ProQuest Information and Learning, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gCWrDAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The author presents a selection of African American literary criticism from a historical perspective. Literary criticism was of central importance to Harlem Renaissance intellectuals such as Alain Locke, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, the author notes. Griffin compares the perspectives of DuBois and Hughes, who argued that black art comes from the spirituals, blues, and humor of the urban black working class rather than the black elite. The author notes the emphasis of the protest novel envouraged by Richard Wright. As with Hughes, Wright cites the culture of working-class African Americans as the most fruitful source of inspiration for black artists, but stresses the significance of cultural and political separatism in the lives of black Americans, a black nationalism born of segregation. Griffin notes criticisms of the black protest novel by James Baldwin and others in the 1940s, and discusses the advent of the Black Arts movement in the 1960s. The Black Arts critics were explicitly Black Nationalist in character, but eschewed protest and transcendence from nationalism. The rise of black feminist literature and criticism in the 1970s, the increasingly academic focus of African American literary criticism in the 1980s, and the advent of black queer studies in the 1990s is highlighted. Following the essay, a bibliography of recommended reading, a chronology of events from 1746 to 2004, and a glossary are presented.