The Politics of Representation
Some Recent African-American Literary Criticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Sanders (0000-0002-6990-7722, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-260 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-021-02-10 |
| OpenAlex | W2023012882 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Bernard Bell. The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. xix + 421 pp. Hazel V. Carby. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 223 pp. Robert Elliot Fox. Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R Delany. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. xi + 142 pp. Norman Harris. Connecting Times: The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. 297 pp. Ann Allen Shockley. Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988, xxviii + 465 pp. Valerie Smith. Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. viii 4- 167 pp. In Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative, Valerie Smith centers her work on the paradox that "by fictionalizing one's life, one bestows a quality of authenticity upon it" (2). She argues that certain slave narrators and protagonists of twentieth-century African-American fiction "affirm and legitimate their psychological autonomy by telling the stories of their own lives." Building on Robert Stepto and other critics who have plumbed the connection between literacy and freedom as it arises throughout African- American literature, Smith maintains a focus both on texts and on the social and political milieu which gave rise to their production, and which they themselves recreate.1
African american · American literature · Art · Art history · Criticism · Literary criticism · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · History · Law · Whitehead's Philosophy and Applications
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |