Writing America Black Race Rhetoric and the Public Sphere (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)-[1]-[C K Doreski].pdf

WRITING AMERICA BLACK
Race Rhetoric in the Public Sphere
Writing America Black examines the African-American press and select-
ed literary works by black authors. By viewing the journalist's role as
historian, reporter, taste-maker, and propagandist, C. K. Doreski
reveals the close bond to a larger African-American literary tradition.
Rich in cultural and historical context, this valuable study will be of
interest to readers of literature, history, African-American studies,
American studies, and journalism.
C. K. Doreski, author of Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language
(1993), has published widely on the cultural settings of journalism
and literature. She is pleting "Contingencies of Citi-
zenship: Americans at Home in the Second World War," a study
underwritten by the citizenship initiative of the National Endowment
for the Humanitites.
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
AND CULTURE
Editor
Eric Sundquist, University of California, Los Angeles
Founding Editor
Albert Gelpi, Stanford University
Advisory Board
Nina Baym, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University
Albert Gelpi, Stanford University
Myra Jehlen, Rutgers University
Carolyn Porter, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Stepto, Yale University
Tony Tanner, King's College, Cambridge University
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118. Wilson Moses, Afrocentrism, Antimodernism, and Utopia
117. Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double
116. Lawrence Howe, Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority
115. Casey, DosPassos and the Ideology of the Feminine
114. Caroline Levander, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in
eenth-Century American Literature and