Double-Consciousness/Double Bind : Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature Hardback
by Sandra Adell
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/11/1994
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- ISBN:9780252021091
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/11/1994
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- ISBN:9780252021091