Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521641142)

Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories such as "colored", "Negro", "black" or "African American" in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks. Mostern shows how these autobiographical narratives attempt to construct and transform the political meanings of blackness. This wide-ranging study will interest all those working in African American Studies, cultural studies and literary theory.

Author: Kenneth Mostern
ISBN-10: 0521641144
ISBN-13: 9780521641142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/17/1999
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.80w x 0.77d