Chapter 1 Introduction: Black American Literature in Sociological Perspective Chapter 2 The Era of the Primitivist School: The Beginning of Black American Literature's Public Role Chapter 3 The Era of the Naturalistic Protest School: The Politicization of Black American Literature Chapter 4 The Era of the Existentialist School: Political Disillusionment and Retreat into Individualism Chapter 5 The Era of the Moral Suasion School: Political Re-Engagement through Protest for Civil Rights Chapter 6 Amiri Baraka and the Rise of the Counterhegemonic Black Cultural Nationalist School Chapter 7 A Theoretical Overview Chapter 8 Epilogue: The New Postpolitical Black Literary Culture Chapter 9 Index
Robert E. Washington is professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr College.
Robert Washington's painstaking comparison of five black literary
movements is certain to stimulate debate, reflection, outrage.
Literary sociology is rarely as provocative as this. Members of the
black literary community, and the white liberals, who have appeared
to support them, will need to respond to Washington's devastating
analysis.
*Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University*
Exploring in unique and powerful ways the shaping forces of a
literary movement, this exciting work of scholarship shifts the
ways we must read Afro-American literature. With precision and
analytical skill, Washington carries us persuasively into
heretofore neglected domains of black literature and its production
in the United States.
*Houston A. Baker, Jr., Duke University*
The Ideologies of African American Literature is a powerful and
truly engaging book. It is packed with insights on how the
ideological climate of American race relations influenced the
writings of the dominant black literary schools from the 1920s
through the 1960s. Robert Washington's scholarship is impressive
and his provocative arguments will be discussed and debated for
many years.
*William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University
Professor, Harvard University*
Ideologies of African American Literature is the most sophisticated
analysis of the sociology of black literature yet published. This
book is superior in every way, and is essential reading for all
students of the African American literary tradition.
*Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University*
An extremely impressive book offering a provocative interpretation
that is certain to be discussed and argued about.
*CHOICE*
This thoroughly informative book not only expands our understanding
of African American literature but also challenges future
scholarship.
*Ethnic and Racial Studies*
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