Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
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Sandra Adell (Author)
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Sandra Adell looks at Black literature and criticism's relationship with the complex ensemble of Western literature, criticism, and philosophy. Adell begins with an analysis of the metaphysical foundations of W. E. B. Du Bois's famous formulation of double-consciousness and how Black writing bears the traces of such European philosophers as Kant, Hegel, and Marx. She then examines, in the double context of black literature and European philosophy, the writings of major authors and essayists like Richard Wright, Leopold Senghor, Maya Angelou, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and offers a thoughtful analysis of the "double bind" created by conflicting claims of Euro- and Afrocentrism in Black literature. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Sandra Adell is a professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Literary Masters: Toni Morrison and editor of Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works.
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- Contributor: Sandra Adell
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252021091
- Number of Pages: 184
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 399
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 1994-11-01
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Sandra Adell is a professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Literary Masters: Toni Morrison and editor of Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works.
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