Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual
In this book, Ross Posnock shows that black writers, far from being recent arrivals, were arguably the first modern American intellectuals. W.E.B. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Posnock identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. The book offers a much needed historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke, from Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin to Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is "white culture" and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (353 pages)
9780674042339, 9780674003798, 0674042336, 0674003799
607714421
Introduction: Culture Has No Color 1. After Identity Politics 2. The Unclassified Residuum 3. Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon 4. The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics 5. Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity 6. Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston 7. The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka 8. Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy Notes Works Cited Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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