Loose canons : notes on the culture wars / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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TextSeries: Oxford paperbacksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: xix, 199 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0195083504
- 9780195083507
- 0195075196
- 9780195075199
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- American literature -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Literature and society -- United States
- African Americans -- Intellectual life
- Race in literature
- Canon (Literature)
- Literatur
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Schwarze
- USA
- 810.9/896073 20
- PS153.N5 G275 1992
- HU 1728
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Includes index.
Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir ... what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism.
Annotation Multiculturalism has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek and other newspapers and magazines around America. A leading literary and cultural critic, Gates says that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding.
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