Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing

by Tania Friedel

This book engages cosmopolitanism-a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality-in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the writers closely examined in this study-Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes and Albert Murray-have advanced cosmopolitanism to meet its own theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415543088
• ISBN13: 9780415543088
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"