{"product_id":"afro-american-poetics-afro-american-poetics-afro-american-poetics-revisions-of-harlem-and-the-black-aesthetic-revisions-of-harlem-and-the-black-aesth-paperback","title":"Afro-American Poetics Afro-American Poetics Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHouston a. Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Houston A. Baker Jr. one of America's foremost literary critics, first published \u003ci\u003eAfro-American Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e in 1988, it was hailed as a major revisionist history of both African American culture and criticism. Now available in paperback, this ambitious and enlightening book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920s and the 1960s; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker's most personal book, an intellectual autobiography tracing his own beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his \"second birth\" as he began teaching African American literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom reviews of the hardcover edition: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stunning critical achievement. . . . Baker explores in fine and splendid detail the dialectic between self and other, rhetoric and representation, 'high' theory and the Black vernacular, to chart the evolution of Afro-American literary criticism since 1970.\"--Henry Louis Gates Jr, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Baker's is a fascinating portrait of the literary critic as blues artist, reconstructing the products of two amazingly fruitful decades of engagement with Afro-American expressive culture in illuminating autobiographical examinations of his own--and indeed, Afro-American criticism's--momentous changes over that period of time.\"--Michael Awkward, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers who do not know much about black American literature would learn a great deal from \u003ci\u003eAfro-American Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e; those who do would be further enlightened.\"--Peter Nazareth, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For this student of black literature, the final impact of \u003ci\u003eAfro-American Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e is overwhelming. We now have the beginnings of a superstructure upon which to gauge individual pieces of black literature.\"--Eugene Kraft, \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow available in paperback, this ambitious book juxtaposes two of the most fertile periods of African American culture, the 1920's and the 1960's; it includes essays on Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, and Hoyt Fuller. This is also Baker's most personal book, tracing his beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his 'second birth' as he began teaching African American Literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHouston A. Baker, Jr., is professor of English, Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, and director of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books of criticism include \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Harlem Renaissance and Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdeology and Afro-American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has published three collections of poems. He is also the editor of many books, including \u003ci\u003eNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.49 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1976\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45308798074982,"sku":"9780299115043","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RXVpUmxTUXNaTVUxTkNKNldOODJZQT09.webp?v=1774191027","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/afro-american-poetics-afro-american-poetics-afro-american-poetics-revisions-of-harlem-and-the-black-aesthetic-revisions-of-harlem-and-the-black-aesth-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}