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In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature.

American literature --- African Americans --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Reality in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- NOIRS AMERICAINS --- AUTHENCICITE (PHILOSOPHIE) --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- REALITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- RACE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- 20E SIECLE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The second section explains how literature, culture, and politics intersect to offer a blueprint for revolution within and beyond the United States. The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, when 'Black' became a political identity, one in which racial social justice became inseparable from aesthetic practice.

American literature --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- African American arts --- African American aesthetics. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government

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Edited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-PharrIn this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. "He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic."The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the author's final changes to his masterwork.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality