{"product_id":"within-the-circle-9780822315445","title":"Within the Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWithin the Circle\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature, twentieth-century cultural criticism, or the African American intellectual canon. It belongs on every bookshelf and, more important, as required reading within the American literature classroom. Angelyn Mitchell has done us all an invaluable service. It is a landmark achievement.\"—Cathy N. Davidson\u003cbr\u003e\"As \u003ci\u003eWithin the Circle\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the development of twentieth-century African American literary criticism and theory, it illustrates the impressive breadth and highlights the critical issues of the tradition. Mitchell’s fine editorial judgment in the selection and her thorough insights in her introductory comments complete a task that scholars of African American literature have been eagerly awaiting. This anthology is a precious addition to African American literary scholarship.\"—Karla Holloway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Voices Within the Circle: A Historical Overview of African American Literary Criticism 1\u003cbr\u003e I. The Harlem Renaissance \u003cbr\u003e The New Negro \/ Alain Locke 21\u003cbr\u003e The Negro in American Literature \/ William Stanley Braithwaite 32\u003cbr\u003e The Gift of Laughter \/ Jessie Fauset 45\u003cbr\u003e The Negro-Art Hokum \/ George S. Schuyler 51\u003cbr\u003e The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain \/ Langston Hughes 55\u003cbr\u003e Criteria of Negro Art \/ W.E.B. DuBois 60\u003cbr\u003e Our Literary Audience \/ Sterling A. Brown 69\u003cbr\u003e Characteristics of Negro Expression \/ Zora Neale Hurston 79\u003cbr\u003e II. Humanistic\/Ethical Criticism and the Protest Tradition \u003cbr\u003e Blueprint for Negro Writing \/ Richard Wright 97\u003cbr\u003e American Negro Literature \/ J. Saunders Redding 107\u003cbr\u003e What White Publishers Won't Print \/ Zora Neale Hurston 117\u003cbr\u003e New Poets \/ Margaret Walker 122\u003cbr\u003e Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity \/ Ralph Ellison 134\u003cbr\u003e Everybody's Protest Novel \/ James Baldwin 149\u003cbr\u003e Integration and Race Literature \/ Arthur P. Davis 156\u003cbr\u003e III. The Black Arts Movement \u003cbr\u003e The Myth of a \"Negro Literature\" \/ LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) 165\u003cbr\u003e Ethnic Impact in American Literature: Reflections on a Course \/ George E. Kent 172\u003cbr\u003e The Black Arts Movement \/ Larry Neal 184\u003cbr\u003e Towards a Black Aesthetic \/ Hoyt W. Fuller 199\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic \/ Addison Gayle, Jr. 207\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Definition: Black Poetry of the Sixties (After LeRoi Jones) \/ Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti) 213\u003cbr\u003e Tripping with Black Writing \/ Sarah Webster Fabio 224\u003cbr\u003e IV. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the African-American Critic \u003cbr\u003e Preface to Blackness: Text and Pretext \/ Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 245\u003cbr\u003e I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authored Control in Four Slave Narratives \/ Robert B. Stepto 256\u003cbr\u003e Generational Shifts and the Recent Criticism of Afro-American Literature \/ Houston A. Baker, Jr. 282\u003cbr\u003e Literary Production: A Silence in Afro-American Critical Practice \/ W. Lawrence Hogue 329\u003cbr\u003e The Race for Theory \/ Barbara Christian 348\u003cbr\u003e Appropriate Gestures: Theory and Afro-American Literary Criticism \/ Michael Awkward 360\u003cbr\u003e Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature \/ Toni Morrison 368\u003cbr\u003e V. Gender, Theory, and African-American Feminist Criticism \u003cbr\u003e In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens \/ Alice walker 401\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Black Feminist Criticism \/ Barbara Smith 410\u003cbr\u003e New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism \/ Deborah E. McDowell 428\u003cbr\u003e \"The Darkened Eye Restored\": Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women \/ Mary Helen Washington 442\u003cbr\u003e Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book \/ Hortense J. Spillers 454\u003cbr\u003e Gender and Afro-Americanist Literary Theory and Criticism \/ Valerie Smith 482\u003cbr\u003e But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History \/ Barbara Christian 499\u003cbr\u003e Some Implications for Related Reading 523\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment of Copyrights 526\u003cbr\u003e About the Critics 528\u003cbr\u003e Index of Selected Names 531\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406015373655,"sku":"9780822315445","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/within-the-circle-9780822315445","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}