Loose canons :
Gates, Henry Louis.
Loose canons : notes on the culture wars / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. - xix, 199 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford paperbacks . - Oxford paperbacks. .
Includes index.
Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir ... what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism.
Annotation Multiculturalism has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek and other newspapers and magazines around America. A leading literary and cultural critic, Gates says that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding.
0195083504 9780195083507 0195075196 9780195075199
PS153.N5G275 1992
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)
Literature and society--United States.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Race in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Literatur.
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft.
Schwarze.
USA.
PS153.N5 / G275 1992
810.9/896073
Loose canons : notes on the culture wars / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. - xix, 199 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford paperbacks . - Oxford paperbacks. .
Includes index.
Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir ... what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism.
Annotation Multiculturalism has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek and other newspapers and magazines around America. A leading literary and cultural critic, Gates says that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding.
0195083504 9780195083507 0195075196 9780195075199
PS153.N5G275 1992
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)
Literature and society--United States.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Race in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Literatur.
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft.
Schwarze.
USA.
PS153.N5 / G275 1992
810.9/896073