A Scholar's Conscience (eBook)

Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

J. Saunders Redding (Autor)

Faith Berry (Herausgeber)

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2021
248 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8866-9 (ISBN)

Infos

J. Saunders Redding (19061988) was often and justifiably called "e;the dean of African American scholars."e; As professor and man of letters, he wrote about African American literature and culture in vivid and scholarly prose. And of all the writers of his generation, he best represented, and came closest to explaining, the hopes and conflicts of American democracy in a multiracial society. Yet his perceptions and writings were never limited to race, nationality, academia, or one literary genre.In this first published anthology drawn from Redding's books, essays, and speeches, Faith Berry has compiled representative selections from every period and genre in which Redding wrote: autobiography, fiction, biography, history, journalism, travelogue, and literary criticism. The collection offers a wide range of his thought and criticism from numerous publications, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of his works.Redding is essential reading for all those who argue for or against the intellectual credo he espoused: that African American writing and culture be studied in the context of American life and culture, not in insolation.This useful and balanced edition of Redding's writing should serve to introduce him to a new audience certain to find his texts worthy of attention and discussion. Readers concerned with literary and social history, higher education, race relations, American and ethnic studies, foreign affairs, cultural exchangeor indeed the humanities in generalwill find this work an important resource. Contemporary African American scholars will value the book as a lasting reference. And anyone unfamiliar with Redding's work will discover and appreciate the breadth of his contributions to scholarship and literature.

Autor

Faith Berry is the author of Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem and editor of Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings of Langston Hughes.

Inhalt

Autobiographical Selections: "A Writer's Heritage"
Autobiographical Selections: From No Day of Triumph
Autobiographical Selections: From On Being Negro in America
Autobiographical Selections: "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience"
Fiction: "Lay the burden Down"
Fiction: From They Came in Chains
Biography: "Faith"
Biography: From The Lonesome Road
Journalism: From the Afro-American
Travelogue/Dialogue International: From An American in India
Travelogue/Dialogue International: From "Report from India"
Travelogue/Dialogue International: From "The Meaning of Bandung"
Travelogue/Dialogue International: From "Misled about Africa"
Travelogue/Dialogue International: From "Home to Africa"
Criticism: Book Reviews, Essays, Lectures: A Miscellany

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American literature • Afro-American • An American in India • Autobiography • Biography • Black Studies • Double-Consciousness • Jim Crow • Journalism • No Day of Triumph • On Being Negro in America • race studies • racial island • Racism • Stranger and Alone • The Lonesome Road • They Came in Chains • Travel writing
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8866-0 / 0813188660
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8866-9 / 9780813188669