Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/004004284/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract "Theorizing and documenting relationships between "black" and "white" writing in America, Writing between the Lines is an investigation of interethnic intertextuality and the mutual literary and cultural influences that have been appropriated by American writers of differing ethnic backgrounds. Although numerous studies have explored African-American literary traditions and their position within the American literary canon, few scholars have addressed the African/American intertext, perhaps because the critical gaze has been fixed so steadily upon identity within racial boundaries. Exploring the fluidity of these boundaries, Aldon L. Nielsen examines the relationships between the works of black and white American writers, focusing on those of the twentieth century. Nielsen contends that the designations "black" and "white" do not denote essential racial being, but rather that this kind of simplified grouping is a means of societal oppression. In a similar fashion, expectations of clear demarcations between the works of writers of African descent and the works of writers of European descent inhibit the acknowledgment that the boundaries between the two constantly shift and change. Nielsen contends that literary works do not merely reflect racial difference, they produce difference. As black writers assert their commend of language and their right to describe the world we live in, and as white writers appropriate the language and culture of black people in their work, together they create an endlessly changing and nomadic new-world literature. . The chapters in Writing between the Lines "are tentative chartings of a refigured America that has always been here," Nielsen writes. "They are neither first nor last steps; they are the lost steps of an inter-American dance that we have all been doing all along."".
• catalog contributor b5763021.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description ". The chapters in Writing between the Lines "are tentative chartings of a refigured America that has always been here," Nielsen writes. "They are neither first nor last steps; they are the lost steps of an inter-American dance that we have all been doing all along."".
• catalog description "1. Breaking In: Race and Intertextuality -- 2. The Sense of Unending: A Postscript to C.L.R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In -- 3. Melvin B. Tolson and the Deterritorialization of Modernism -- 4. Amiri Baraka and the Harrowing of Hell -- 5. The Middle Passage -- 6. James Weldon Johnson's Impossible Text: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- 7. Whose Blues? -- 8. Amiri Baraka: LeRoi Jones as Intertext -- 9. Of Slave Girls and Women: Two Epilogues.".
• catalog description "Although numerous studies have explored African-American literary traditions and their position within the American literary canon, few scholars have addressed the African/American intertext, perhaps because the critical gaze has been fixed so steadily upon identity within racial boundaries. Exploring the fluidity of these boundaries, Aldon L. Nielsen examines the relationships between the works of black and white American writers, focusing on those of the twentieth century.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-293) and index.".
• catalog description "Nielsen contends that literary works do not merely reflect racial difference, they produce difference. As black writers assert their commend of language and their right to describe the world we live in, and as white writers appropriate the language and culture of black people in their work, together they create an endlessly changing and nomadic new-world literature.".
• catalog description "Nielsen contends that the designations "black" and "white" do not denote essential racial being, but rather that this kind of simplified grouping is a means of societal oppression. In a similar fashion, expectations of clear demarcations between the works of writers of African descent and the works of writers of European descent inhibit the acknowledgment that the boundaries between the two constantly shift and change.".
• catalog description "Theorizing and documenting relationships between "black" and "white" writing in America, Writing between the Lines is an investigation of interethnic intertextuality and the mutual literary and cultural influences that have been appropriated by American writers of differing ethnic backgrounds.".
• catalog extent "x, 300 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0820316032 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "810.9/355 20".
• catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life.".
• catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
• catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature African American authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature Afro-American authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature White authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Intertextuality.".
• catalog subject "PS153.N5 N54 1994".
• catalog subject "Race in literature.".
• catalog subject "Whites United States Intellectual life.".
• catalog subject "Whites in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Breaking In: Race and Intertextuality -- 2. The Sense of Unending: A Postscript to C.L.R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In -- 3. Melvin B. Tolson and the Deterritorialization of Modernism -- 4. Amiri Baraka and the Harrowing of Hell -- 5. The Middle Passage -- 6. James Weldon Johnson's Impossible Text: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- 7. Whose Blues? -- 8. Amiri Baraka: LeRoi Jones as Intertext -- 9. Of Slave Girls and Women: Two Epilogues.".
• catalog title "Writing between the lines : race and intertextuality / Aldon L. Nielsen.".
• catalog type "text".