Black American Literature and Humanism

by R Miller

Overview

For Black writers, what is tradition? What does it mean to them that Western humanism has excluded Black culture? Seven noted Black writers and critics take up these and other questions in this collection of original essays, attempting to redefine humanism from a Black perspective, to free it from ethnocentrism, and to enlarge its cultural base.

Contributors: Richard K. Barksdale, Alice Childress, Chester J. Fontenot, Michael S. Harper, Trudier Harris, George E. Kent, R. Baxter Miller

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813181691
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	03/17/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	1000 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

R. Baxter Miller is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee.

R. Baxter Miller is professor of English and director of the Black Literature Program at the University of Tennessee. His published works include Reference Guide to Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks and Black American Literature and Humanism.

Editorial Reviews

A milestone in the scholarship on Afro-American letters.

South Atlantic Review

An important statement about Black American Literature today. Black writers challenge many of the assumptions of Westerns humanism, and critics must be cognizant of their challenge.

Robert Hemenway

"A milestone in the scholarship on Afro-American letters." — South Atlantic Review

"An important statement about Black American Literature today. Black writers challenge many of the assumptions of Westerns humanism, and critics must be cognizant of their challenge." — Robert Hemenway

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