Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture (Black Studies and Critical Thinking, Band 26) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433115085 ISBN 13: 9781433115080

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 2011

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Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real,» as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of «authentic blackness,» while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and «real» blackness; the link between «blackness» and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle’s comedy; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.

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Martin Japtok, Associate Professor of English and Multicultural Studies at Palomar College, is the author of Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction and the editor of Postcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Jerry Rafiki Jenkins is Associate Professor of English and Multicultural Studies at Palomar College. He has published essays on African American speculative fiction and is completing a book-length study on African American vampire novels.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1433115085
• ISBN 13: 9781433115080
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Japtok Martin, Jenkins Jerry Rafiki
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