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The militant black writer : in Africa and the United States
- Title
- The militant black writer : in Africa and the United States / Mercer Cook and Stephen E. Henderson.
- Author
- Cook, Mercer, 1903-1987
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
- ©1969
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS153.N5 C65 1969 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 136 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Here, two distinguished and articulate black intellectuals view the Black Revolution in terms of the black writer. Cook traces the development of black African consciousness through the works of representative black African writers, from the nineteenth century to the present. In exploring basic themes--independence, civilization, identity, African personality, and African socialism--he draws interesting parallels and notes some telling dissimilarities in the American and African movements. Henderson, choosing the phrase "survival motion" as rubric, examines the intricate interrelationship among black writers, the Black Revolution, and Black Consciousness in America--and their effects upon (and influencing by) established, white, middle-class cultural values. The responsibility of the black writer, he suggests, is to free his people from racist mythology and stimulate their emergent self-respect into an instrumentality of wisdom. Together, these remarkable essays form some profound connections for all who seek a greater understanding, not only of the American Black Revolution, but of the larger, international Black movement which forms an illuminating context for the American experience"--(Source not specified)
- Subject
- Geschichte 1945-1965
- Geschichte 1960-1968
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- African literature > Black authors > History and criticism
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- Black people > Intellectual life
- African Americans in literature
- Black people > Race identity
- Black people in literature
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- African literature > Black authors
- American literature > African American authors
- Black people in literature
- Black people > Intellectual life
- Black people > Race identity
- Literatur
- Militanz
- Schrijvers
- Engagement
- Zwarten
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- African literature > Black authors > History and criticism
- Black people > Africa > Intellectual life
- Africa
- Subsaharisches Afrika
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Expanded versions of 2 papers delivered at a symposium at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Aug. 8-9, 1968.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 57-62. Bibliographical footnotes.
- Contents
- African voices of protest / Mercer Cook -- "Survival motion": a study of the Black writer and the Black revolution in America / Stephen E. Henderson.
- ISBN
- 9780299053918
- 0299053911
- 9780299053949
- 0299053946
- 0299503911 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 69017324
- OCLC
- ocm00005808
- 5808
- SCSB-119365
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library