Black heart : the moral life of recent African American letters /
Richards, Phillip M.,1950-
New York : Peter Lang,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.
Gates's cultural synthesis -- The proof of the pudding -- Gates's criticism and middle class African American tastes -- Signifying as romantic myth of origins -- Michael Eric Dyson's "I may not get there with you" -- Black criticism meets black realities -- Moll Flanders in LA -- Toni Morrison and the romance of signifying -- White patrons, black clients, and middle class apocalypse -- Theology and black literature -- Robert Hayden, the poet as cosmopolitan historian -- Earlier integrated worlds -- A Marxist humanism and literacy -- The cultural criticism of Angela Davis -- Adolph Reed : politics as gesture.
American literature
African Americans
Criticism
Literature and morals
African Americans in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Ethics in literature.