Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
by
Lesley Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes...