ISBN:
0813535999
,
0813535980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 247 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als White Scholars/African American Texts
DDC:
305.896/073/00711
Keywords:
African Americans Study and teaching (Higher)
;
Education, Higher Political aspects
;
Whites Intellectual life
;
Teachers, White
;
African Americans Historiography
;
American literature African American authors
;
Study and teaching
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
Education, Higher Social aspects
;
Teachers, White - United States
;
Electronic books
;
United States Race relations
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The essays in this collection explore the many difficulties created by the fact that white scholars greatly outnumber black scholars in the study and teaching of African American literature. Contributors, including some of the most prominent theorists in the field as well as younger scholars, examine who is speaking, what is being spoken and what is not, and why framing African American literature in terms of an exclusive black/white racial divide is problematic and limiting.In highlighting the "whiteness" of some African Americanists, the collection does not imply that the t
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: White Scholars / African American Texts; Naming the Problem That Led to the Question "Who Shall Teach African American Literature?" or, Are We Ready to Disband the Wheatley Court?; Part One: Liberalism, Authority, and Authenticity; Theme for African American Literature B; Race Walks in the Room: White Teachers in Black Studies; Naming the Problem Embedded in the Problem That Led to the Question "Who Shall Teach African American Literature?" or, Are We Ready to Discard the Concept of Authenticity Altogether?
Description / Table of Contents:
Turning Impossibility into Possibility: Teaching Ellison, Murray, and the Blues at TuskegeePart Two: Training and Working in the Field; Before Positionality; White Scholars in African American Literary Circles: Appropriation or Cultural Literacy?; "Knowing Your Stuff," Knowing Yourself; At Close Range: Being Black and Mentoring Whites in African American Studies; Part Three: Beyond Black and White; Faulty Analogies: Queer White Critics Teaching African American Texts; The Color of the Critic: An Intervention in the Critical Debate in African American Theory on Interpretive Authority
Description / Table of Contents:
Between Rome, Harlem, and HarlanThe Stepsister and the Clan: When the Native Teaches African American Literature; Part Four: Case Studies; Twelve Years with Martin Delany: A Confession; Master Thoughts; Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks Anyway; Truth and Talent in Interpreting Ethnic American Autobiography: From White to Black and Beyond; Notes on Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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