A Literary Criticism of Five Generations of African American Writing: The Artistry of Memory

by Miller, R. Baxter; Ward, Jerry W., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780773449664
• ISBN10: 0773449663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

Examines the works ofAfrican American writers and intellectuals which defined the community through historical, economic, and social changes in the United States.

Author Biography

Dr. R. Baxter Miller (Ph.D., Brown 1974), is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia. His many books include the internationally acclaimed Black American Literature and Humanism, for which he wrote the historical introduction and final essay.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Rewritten Memory of Slavery
The Performance of Autobiographical Memory	p. 3
Mythic Memory by Alex HaleyRemapped Memory of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 19
Cafe de la Paix: Site of Harlem Renaissance Memory	p. 33
Debate in Critical Memory: Locke and Du Bois	p. 55
Remembering Hughes and His Art New Literary Memory by Black American Poets between Worlds, 1940-1960	p. 69
Broadside Memories and Dudley Randall	p. 107
"Intricate Design" of Southern Memory: Margaret Walker	p. 121
Humanistic Memory of Gwendolyn Brooks Last Generation in Critical Memory	p. 139
Mirrored Reflection by George E. Kent	p. 155
In Memory of Richard K. Barksdale	p. 169
The Southern Trace of Black Critical Theory	p. 185
Southern Trace in the Voice of Charles T. Davis	p. 231
A Revised Southern Memory for Blyden	p. 241
The Prime Obligation of Scholarly Memory: Therman B. O'Daniel	p. 253
Ruthe T. Sheffey in Transitional Memory Remembrance of History, Reinvention of Theory	p. 261
Langston Hughes and the Reinvention of Global Memory	p. 273
CLA in Historical Memory	p. 289
Index	p. 303
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