Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency /
"Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency collects twenty-three of Bernard W. Bell's lectures and essays that were first presented between 1968 and 2008. From his role in the culture wars as a graduate student activis...
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| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | African American life series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Every Tongue Got to Confess
- Introduction
- Memoir: On Becoming an African American Scholar Activist
- 1. Double Consciousness as the Sign of African American Difference
- I. The African American Jeremiad and Frederick Douglass�s Fourth of July 1852 Speech African American Double Consciousness
- The Sacred and Secular Origins of the American Jeremiad
- The African American Jeremiad
- That Most Foul and Fiendish of All Human Decrees
- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- Notes
- 2. The Roots and Branches of the African American Literary Tradition I. The African American Literary Tradition
- II. African American Writers
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- III. The Image of Africa in the Afro-American Novel
- White Images of Africa in Western Culture
- Early Images of Africa in the Afro-American Novel
- Images of Africa in the Pre�World War II NovelImages of Africa in the Post�World War II Novel
- Notes
- IV. Jean Toomer�s “Blue Meridian�: The Poet as Prophet of a New Order of Man
- V. The Legacy of James Baldwin: The Artist as Redemptive Lover and Righteous Witness
- Manchild of the Promised Land
- Artist of Redemptive Love
- Modern Black Writer as Righteous Witness
- Notes
