The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252076107)

This reader collects sixty of the personal essays, critical articles, and other seminal works of Addison Gayle Jr., one of the most influential figures in African American literary criticism and a key pioneer in the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic Movement. The volume contains selective essays that represent the range of Gayle's writing on such subjects as relationships between father and son, cultural nationalism, racism, black aesthetics, black criticism, and black literature. The collection, the first of its kind, includes definitive essays such as "Blueprint for Black Criticism," "The Harlem Renaissance: Toward a Black Aesthetic," and "Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetics." A key chapter from Gayle's autobiography is supplemented by his literary criticism, and a general introduction and editor's notes for each section discuss the articles' lasting significance and influence.

Author: Addison Gayle
ISBN-10: 0252076109
ISBN-13: 9780252076107
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2009