Overview
Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories such as "colored", "Negro", "black" or "African American" in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks. Mostern shows how these autobiographical narratives attempt to construct and transform the political meanings of blackness. This wide-ranging study will interest all those working in African American Studies, cultural studies and literary theory.
- | Author: Kenneth Mostern
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 17, 1999
- | Number of Pages: 294 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521641144
- | ISBN-13: 9780521641142
