Reading Black : essays in the criticism of African, Caribbean, and Black American literature / edited by Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Publication:

[Ithaca, N.Y.] : [Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University], [©1976]

Series:

Cornell University. Africana Studies and Research Center. Monograph series ; no. 4.
Monograph series - Africana Studies and Research Center ; no. 4

Format/Description:

Book
vi, 58 pages ; 28 cm.

Subjects:

Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
Blacks in literature.
Blacks in literature.
Literature -- Black authors.

Form/Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Place of Publication:

United States New York (State) Ithaca.

Contents:

Aesthetic illusions / Wole Soyinka
The African critic today: toward a definition / Ezekiel Mphahlele
The love axe (1): developing a Caribbean aesthetic, 1962-1974 / Edward Kamau Brathwaite
The function of Black criticism at the present time / Addison Gayle, Jr.
Afro-American culture and the Black aesthetic: notes toward a re-evaluation / J. Saunders Redding
On the criticism of Black American literature: one view of the Black aesthetic / Houston A Baker, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1976

Contributor:

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Other format:

Online version: Reading Black.

OCLC:

3337029

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