Black Heart - The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters (Paperback)

Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in African American literary culture - a process that has left contemporary black academic criticism socially, politically, and culturally hollow. Exploring the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael Dyson, Karla Holloway and others, Black Heart sets forth the rhetorical strategies of present day African American critical writing, and probes the ethical dimensions of its institutional life in the academy, the media, and the public sphere. Richards under takes to recover the procedures by which cultural and moral value may be recovered for black literary culture and to establish the possibilities for a new humanism in African American writing and literary culture.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Intersections in Communications and Culture Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, 12
Release date:	November 2005
Authors:	Phillip M Richards
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-7122-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-8204-7122-4
Barcode:	9780820471228

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