| Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cameron (Editor), Valdivia, Angharad N. (Editor), Richards, Phillip M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820471224 ISBN-13: 9780820471228 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $46.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 2005015548 |
| Series: Intersections in Communications and Culture, |
| Physical Information: 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in African American literary culture - a process that has left contemporary black academic criticism socially, politically, and culturally hollow. Exploring the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael Dyson, Karla Holloway and others, Black Heart sets forth the rhetorical strategies of present-day African American critical writing, and probes the ethical dimensions of its institutional life in the academy, the media, and the public sphere. Richards undertakes to recover the procedures by which cultural and moral value may be recovered for black literary culture and to establish the possibilities for a new humanism in African American writing and literary culture. |