Black power, yellow power, and the making of revolutionary identities
By: Rychetta Watkins
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781617031618; 9781617031625
Subjects: Politics and government; Black power in literature; Asian Americans; Race identity; History and criticism; American literature; Ethnic identity; Black power; African American authors; Asian American authors; Power (Social sciences) in literature; African Americans; Relations with Asian Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: developing a critical perspective on power in literature; title: Translating Fanon: Black and yellow power as American anticolonialisms; title: From gorilla to guerilla: defining revolutionary identity; title: Power and the ivory tower: academics as intellectual guerillas; title: Reading resistance: the guerilla in literature; title: Promise vs. praxis: the legacies of power.