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Barack Obama's Literary Legacy - Readings of Dreams From My Father (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Barack Obama's Literary Legacy - Readings of Dreams From My Father (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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President Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father (1995) and The
Audacity of Hope (2006) have received positive and extensive
critical attention from both professional reviewers and University
scholars. While literary intellectuals have praised Obama's memoirs
for the style in which he composed them, social scientists and
partisan political analysts have thus far generally monopolized
discussion of President Obama's writings. Yet there has been a
recent surge of interest in the literary merits of Obama's
writings. Our volume understands "literary" to indicate a host of a
priori relationships that successful, artful writing brings to the
surface of a written work. These are instantiated in narrative
form, thereby revealing what Edward W. Said famously defined as the
"worldliness" of the literary object. In the case of President
Obama's writings, and Dreams from My Father in particular, those
relationships are evident in the author's negotiation of literary
tradition, rhetorical modes and historical narratives. By
positioning the "literary" at this vantage, at the point where
writing and the world converge, the volume's contributors assert
the indispensable, and urgent, import of understanding the
President not only in political terms, but, more importantly, in
literary terms that place him within a long tradition of American
literary-political authorship.
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