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Seizing the Word

History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois

By: Keith E. Byerman

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Seizing the Word

History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois

By: Keith E. Byerman

Seizing the Word offers a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. As a historian, journalist, novelist, poet, and social and literary critic, this extraordinary man profoundly influenced our understanding of the African American experience. Following his initial discussion of Du Bois's earliest writing, Keith E. Byerman posits The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a master text that established the tropes of doubleconsciousness and the veil for which Du Bois is known, and incorporated the various genres through which he voiced his understanding of the world. The remainder of the study discusses Du Bois's works as elaborations of the master text within and against the contemporary discourses on history, art, and self. Throughout Byerman examines the connections between the personal and intellectual aspects of Du Bois's life to reveal the intense engagement with moral and ideological issues found even in texts that Du Bois represented as “objective.” At the same time, in order to present some of the complexity and conflict that runs through Du Bois's work, Byerman identifies the tensions and patterns in Du Bois's writing that cross disciplines or genres. Instead of focusing on one aspect of Du Bois's career, Seizing the Word attempts a more synthetic approach, primarily by examining Du Bois in terms of contemporary literary and cultural theory, most notably Lacan's Law of the Father and Erikson's work on identity.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820337757

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9780820337753

The Art and Life of Clarence Major

By: Keith Eldon Byerman

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The Art and Life of Clarence Major

By: Keith Eldon Byerman

Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The author traces Major's life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330558

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9780820330556

The Life and Work of John Edgar Wideman

By: Keith E. Byerman

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The Life and Work of John Edgar Wideman

By: Keith E. Byerman

Challenging. Successful. Controversial. All terms used to accurately describe African American novelist and autobiographer John Edgar Wideman. This book examines his life and work—and the connections between them. The Life and Work of John Edgar Wideman is ideal for readers who might not be familiar with Wideman's work or those who may have been intimidated by descriptions of his writings. Through its coverage of Wideman's life from several generations back to the present and explanations of how Wideman makes use of life experiences, this book breaks down barriers for new readers and enables them to better relate and connect to his writing. Author Keith E. Byerman discusses Wideman's book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as some of his shorter, journalistic pieces. The book emphasizes how Wideman integrates family and personal experience into what is typically labeled postmodern writing, and explains how he has evolved as a public intellectual who supplies shrewd commentary on subjects such as the prison system, terrorism, and the role of sports in American society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Fingering the Jagged Grain

Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction

By: Keith E. Byerman

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Fingering the Jagged Grain

Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction

By: Keith E. Byerman

In Fingering the Jagged Grain, Keith E. Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more expressive, imaginative, and artistic fiction inspired by the example of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Combining a strong concern for technique and craftsmanship with elements of African American heritage including jazz, blues, spirituals, cautionary tales, and voodoo, these writers have created a vital fiction that celebrates the strength and resilience of the black American voice as it recounts the painful details and brutal episodes of black experience.

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0820337765

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The Art and Life of Clarence Major

By: Keith Eldon Byerman

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Seizing the Word

History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois

By: Keith E. Byerman

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History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois

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Seizing the Word

Seizing the Word

The Art and Life of Clarence Major

The Art and Life of Clarence Major

The Life and Work of John Edgar Wideman

The Life and Work of John Edgar Wideman

Fingering the Jagged Grain

Fingering the Jagged Grain

The Art and Life of Clarence Major

The Art and Life of Clarence Major

Seizing the Word

Seizing the Word

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