%0 Book
%A Phillip M. Richards
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1528-610X
%T Black Heart
%B The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100288
%X Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in African American literary culture – a process that has left contemporary black academic criticism socially, politically, and culturally hollow. Exploring the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael Dyson, Karla Holloway and others, Black Heart sets forth the rhetorical strategies of present-day African American critical writing, and probes the ethical dimensions of its institutional life in the academy, the media, and the public sphere. Richards undertakes to recover the procedures by which cultural and moral value may be recovered for black literary culture and to establish the possibilities for a new humanism in African American writing and literary culture.
%K USA, Literatur, Ethik (Motiv), Schwarze, Geschichte 1990-2005, Moral Life, African American Letter
%G English