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Turning South Again

Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

Szerző: Houston A. Baker

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African-Am...

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Szerző

Houston A. Baker

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2001

oldal

128

EAN

9780822326953

ISBN

0822326957

Enbook ID

04937417

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

213

Méretek

146 x 235 x 9

Teljes leírás

In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African-American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a surprisingly different take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute than in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions - particularly that of incarceration -are at the centre of the African-American experience. From the holds of slave ships to the peonage of Reconstruction to the contemporary prison system, incarceration has largely defined black life in the United States. Washington's school at Tuskegee, Baker explains, housed and regulated black bodies no longer directly controlled by slave-owners. He further implicates Washington by claiming that - in enacting his ideas about racial "uplift" - Washington engaged in "mulatto modernism," a compromised attempt at full citizenship. Combining autobiographical prose, literary criticism, psychoanalytic writing, and, occasionally, blues lyrics and poetry, Baker meditates on the consequences of mulatto modernism for the project of black modernism, which he defines as the achievement of mobile, life-enhancing, public sphere participation and economic solvency for the majority of African-Americans. By including a section about growing up in the South and his recent return to assume a professorship at Duke, Baker contributes further to one of the book's central concerns: a call to centralise the South in American cultural studies.

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