The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814210775 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
E. April C. During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Ultimately, the author confronts the difficult dilemma of how to use diasporic, syncretic, and vernacular theories of Black culture to think through the massive cultural transformations wrought by the Middle Passage.. Their memories, ideas, beliefs, and practices would forever reshape its history and cultures. By exploring how Senegalese, Igbo, and other West African traditions provide striking new lenses for reading poetry and prose by six significant writers, Langley offers a fresh perspective on this important era in our literary history. Langley’s The Black Aesthetic Unbound exposes the dilemma of the literal, metaphorical, and rhetorical question, "What is African in African American literature?" Confronting the undeniable imprints of West African culture and consciousness in early black writing such as Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative or Phillis Wheatley’s poetry, the author conceives eighteenth-century Black Experience to be literally and figuratively encompassin
“April Langley persuasively argues that scholars of African American literary history cannot divorce from their work any one of the three elements of the coherent tripartite world made up of Africa, Britain, and British North America.” —Joycelyn Moody, editor of African American Review and Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio
"Langley revitalizes 18th century African American literature" according to WordslikeA.mo. I recently read April Langley's The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature. During the time I read this book I was taking a class in 18th century African American Literature. It is amazingly common for early African American and Afro British authors to be polar. Facinating, Extremely well done a must read This book is an excellent read. It is a must read for all cultures