Black heart : the moral life of recent African American letters / Phillip M. Richards.

SeriesIntersections in communications and culture ; v. 12, 1528-610X ;
Intersections in communications and culture v. 12. ^A690916
Contents Gates's cultural synthesis -- The proof of the pudding -- Gates's criticism and middle class African American tastes -- Signifying as romantic myth of origins -- Michael Eric Dyson's "I may not get there with you" -- Black criticism meets black realities -- Moll Flanders in LA -- Toni Morrison and the romance of signifying -- White patrons, black clients, and middle class apocalypse -- Theology and black literature -- Robert Hayden, the poet as cosmopolitan historian -- Earlier integrated worlds -- A Marxist humanism and literacy -- The cultural criticism of Angela Davis -- Adolph Reed : politics as gesture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-242) and index.
LCCN 2005015548
ISBN0820471224 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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