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Outside literary studies : Black criticism and the university
- Title
- Outside literary studies : Black criticism and the university / Andy Hines.
- Author
- Hines, Andy
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- 235 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated writers like Melvin B. Tolson and Doxey Wilkerson. Building a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism, these and other Black writers levied their critique from "outside" venues: behind the closed doors of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations, in the classroom at a Communist labor school under F.B.I. surveillance, and in a host of journals. From these vantages, Black writers not only called out the racist assumptions of the New Criticism; they also defined Black literary and interpretive practices to support Communist and other radical world-making efforts in the mid-twentieth century. Hines's book thus offers a number of timely contributions to literary studies: it spotlights a canon of Black literary texts that belong to an important era of anti-racist struggle, and it fills in the pre-history of the rise of Black studies and of ongoing Black dissent against the neoliberal university"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- African American critics
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. > 20th century
- New Criticism > United States
- Criticism > Political aspects > History > United States > 20th century
- African Americans > Study and teaching > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Study and teaching
- American literature > African American authors
- Criticism > Political aspects
- New Criticism
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- New criticism and the object of American democracy -- Melvin B. Tolson's belated bomb -- Tactical criticism -- Culture as a powerful weapon.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1318
- ISBN
- 9780226818566
- 022681856X
- 9780226818580
- 0226818586
- LCCN
- 2021046119
- OCLC
- 1268256909
- Author
- Hines, Andy, author.
- Title
- Outside literary studies : Black criticism and the university / Andy Hines.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1318