Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters

by Phillip M. Richards

Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in African American literary culture - a process that has left contemporary black academic criticism socially, politically, and culturally hollow. Exploring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820471224
• ISBN13: 9780820471228
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 252 Pages