Loose canons : notes on the culture wars /

Loose canons : notes on the culture wars /

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Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fishan...

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Main Author: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
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)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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