Turning south again
re-thinking modernism/re-reading Booker T.
Race relationsIntellectual lifeCivil rightsPolitical and social viewsModernism (Literature)Social conditionsHistoryAfrican Americans
Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions - particularly that of incarceration - are at the centre of the African-American experience.
Writing a summary for young readers…
For young readers
Book data: Open Library