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I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom!. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, William ...

This title traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoirsitic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels and engagments with that most famous of Southern authors, William Faulkner.

Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledge of th...

From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's "Black Boy" to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, this work examines the second half of the 20th century to assess the challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life.

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Inaugurates a new southern studies with Black experience at the center, through a re-examination of the career of Booker T. Washington, showing incarceration to be the central characteristic of African-American life, even in the case of Tuskegee.

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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

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This special issue of American Literature transcends the old debates surrounding black expressive culture and reexamines major African American texts through the lenses of modernism, progressivism, architecture, avant-gardism, hybridity, and Continental theory. With this arsenal of critical and theoretical tools, the scholars here declare that the concept of "blackness" is agile and dynamic, both unsettled and unsettling. Articles in this issu...

Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."--"Choice." "This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."--"Voice Literary Supplement

Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and as a corrective to reigning constructions of Blackness within African-American studies. This anthology offers the first book-length selection of writings by key figures in this field. From Stuart Hall's classic study of racially structured societies to an interview by Manthia Diawara with Sonia ...

Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and as a corrective to reigning constructions of Blackness within African-American studies. This anthology offers the first book-length selection of writings by key figures in this field. From Stuart Hall's classic study of racially structured societies to an interview by Manthia Diawara with Sonia ...

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When Houston A. Baker, Jr., one of America's foremost literary critics, first published "Afro-American Poetics "in 1988, it was hailed as a major revisionist history of both African American culture and criticism. Now available in paperback, this ambitious and enlightening book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920s and the 1960s, it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry ...

Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the contours of contemporary social and political dynamics or abandoning race as an important issue in the study of American literature and culture. Most ...

Condemns those black intellectuals who, the author believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. This work urges black intellectuals to forge both sacred and secular connections with local communities and rededicate themselves to social responsibility.

This special issue of American Literature testifies that enactments of race, gender, class, sexuality, and region cannot be separated and considers the new questions that emerge when the commas between these constructs are erased and their intersectional

A preeminent scholar of African-American literature offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. Baker argues that the American South and its history of regulatory institutions--particularly that of incarceration--are at the center of the African-American experience.