Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

by Lesley Larkin

Book Overview

What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253017580
• ISBN13: 9780253017581
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"