{"product_id":"the-addison-gayle-jr-reader-addison-gayle-9780252076107","title":"The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Addison Gayle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252076109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252076107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009","brand":"Addison Gayle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448785219839,"sku":"9780252076107","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_366e1e58-06ce-4b4b-a988-be319ad5f496.jpg?v=1777260534","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-addison-gayle-jr-reader-addison-gayle-9780252076107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}