The Art Of The Black Essay (Studies In African American History And Culture)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9781138963832
$65.45
The Art of the Black Essay unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers, to catapult them beyond racial ideology - by immersing them in it - and to elicit in them, ultimately, democratic change. This title outlines the specific tools of the trade, literary techniques through which the democratization process works: the uncanny, meditative moment of transcendency. This title also describes a psychological journey experienced by the essayist him/herself. Essay writing or life-writing is the vehicle to release the pull of ideology - the root of the "hierarchy of race" idea. In this book, the author makes a clear distinction between race as biology and race as ideology in order to align race with the culture, values, traditions and art of a people. The Art of the Black Essay shows how African American essayists have transcended the pull of two cultural identities and achieved democratic change.
- | Author: Cheryl Butler
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Jan 17, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 166 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1138963836
- | ISBN-13: 9781138963832
- Author:
- Cheryl Butler
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Jan 17, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 166 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1138963836
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138963832