Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Hines, Andy
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Hines, Andy

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers...
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Author: Andy Hines
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Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Hines, Andy

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

$103.83
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Hines, Andy

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

$103.83
Author: Andy Hines
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism.

This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well-known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated writers like Melvin B. Tolson and Doxey Wilkerson. In their critical practice, these and other Black writers levied their critique from "outside" venues: behind the closed doors of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in the classroom at a communist labor school under FBI surveillance, and in a host of journals. From these vantages, Black writers not only called out the racist assumptions of the New Criticism, but also defined Black literary and interpretive practices to support communist and other radical world-making efforts in the mid-twentieth century. Hines's book thus offers a number of urgent contributions to literary studies: it spotlights a canon of Black literary texts that belong to an important era of anti-racist struggle, and it fills in the pre-history of the rise of Black studies and of ongoing Black dissent against the neoliberal university.

Author: Andy Hines
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/13/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780226818580


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2022

About the Author
Hines, Andy: - Andy Hines is associate director of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College.
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