Title Race and the literary encounter : black literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett / Lesley Larkin

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Blacks in the diaspora Blacks in the diaspora. Contents Introduction: Scenes of reading, scenes of racialization: modern and contemporary black literature -- Unbinding the double audience: James Weldon Johnson -- Speakerly reading: Zora Neale Hurston -- Close reading "You": Ralph Ellison -- Erasing precious: Sapphire and Percival Everett -- Reading and being read: Jamaica Kincaid -- Epilogue: Toward a theory and pedagogy of responsible reading: Toni Morrison Summary What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the emergence of antiracist reading subjects. Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism Race in literature. Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States African Americans -- Books and reading. African Americans in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. African Americans -- Books and reading African Americans in literature American literature -- African American authors Books and reading -- Social aspects Identity (Psychology) in literature Race in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2015033429 ISBN 9780253017895 0253017890

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