Frames of friction
Subtitle: black genealogies, white hegemony, and the essay as critical intervention
By: Carsten Junker
Series: North American studies -- v. 27; North American studies -- Bd. 27
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Frankfurt; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9783593390994
Subjects: History and criticism; American literature; African American authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Establishing black positions of critical intervention from the New Negro to Black fire. Negotiating a black aesthetic ; Black writing between integration and separation ; The boundary work of the essay; title: Consolidating the idea of black culture as critique in the debate surrounding Native son. Contesting the protest novel paradigm ; The dialogic structure of the essay; title: Appropriating a position of critical intervention in the figure of "the white Negro." Positing chromatic authority ; The essay and "the authority of experience"; title: Remapping knowledge and renegotiating speaking positions in the desegregation debates. Coming into knowledge under segregation ; Debating the desegregation of schools ; The essay bewteen the public and the private.