Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition - Hardcover

LIVING OUR STORIES, TELLING OUR TRUTHS: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Ten provocative essays in which historian Franklin examines the intellectual legacy of the autobiographies of 12 preeminent African Americans, emphasizing historical importance over literary analysis. He includes contextual summaries of the work and roles of people like reformer Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who fought lynching; novelist and key member of the Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson, who emphasized the worth of black folk traditions, and novelist James Baldwin, whose confessional works presaged a new crop of intimate memoirs in the 1960s and '70s. Two chapters offer useful comparisons of novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, and poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka." Other writers covered are the 19th century Episcopalian missionary and scholar, Alexander Crummell; New York politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; Communist Party member Harry Haywood who argued for the revolutionary potential of the Black working class; W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X. Photographs, notes, index. 464 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 92941

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