Tania Friedel

Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book engages the critical mode of cosmopolitanism through racial discourse in the work of several major twentieth-century African American authors, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes and Albert Murray.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415543088
• ISBN-10: 0415543088
• Artikelnr.: 57055632

Autorenporträt

Tania Friedel is a lecturer for the Expository Writing Program and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she teaches a course devoted to interrogating ideas of artistic citizenship, the public sphere, and the role of art in the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Credit Lines. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Racial Discourse and
Cosmopolitanism 1. Cane's Betrayal and Jean Toomer's Untethered
Universalism 2. The "Interminable Puzzles" of Race, Class and Gender in the
Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset 3. The Aesthetics of Particularity and the
Politics of Integration: The Ways of White Folks and Langston Hughes's Work
with Common Ground in the 1940s 4. The Fine Art Tradition of Albert Murray:
Democratic Elitism and Rooted Cosmopolitanism. Notes. Selected
Bibliography. Index