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The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual de Lavelle Porter

The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

Autor Lavelle Porter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2019
The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fiction produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as a space for black writers to produce counternarratives that celebrate black intelligence and argue for the importance of higher education, particularly in the humanistic tradition. Beginning with an examination of W. E. B. Du Bois’s creative writing as the source of the first black academic novels, Porter looks at the fictional representations of black intellectual life and the expectations that are placed on faculty and students to be racial representatives and spokespersons, whether or not they ever intended to be. The final chapter examines blackademics on stage and screen, including in the 2014 film Dear White People and the groundbreaking television series A Different World.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810140998
ISBN-10: 0810140993
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press

Notă biografică

LAVELLE PORTER is an assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. 

Cuprins

Acknowledgements                                                                                                    2-4


Introduction                                                                                                                6-23
Blackademic Lives Matter                                                                                                                                                                             
Chapter 1                                                                                                                    24-70  
The Over-Education of the Negro: On Reading Black Academic Fiction   


Chapter 2                                                                                                                    71-107
Educating and Uplifting the Race, 1876 – 1919  


Chapter 3                                                                                                                    108-147
The New Negro, 1919 – 1954 


Chapter 4                                                                                                                    148-196
Integration and Nationalism 1954 – 1980

Chapter 5                                                                                                                    197-265
Culture Wars and Capitalism, 1980 – present   

Conclusion                                                                                                                  266-278
Blackademics on Screen 

Recenzii

“Porter has produced an exciting study of responsibility and representation in a field where, for too long, the ‘educated Negro’ was by definition the ‘overeducated Negro.’ This is a wonderful read, and for those to whom it is new, it's exciting to have it all so richly and clearly spelled out.” —Samuel R. Delany, author of The Mad Man

“The Blackademic Life is an expansive study of African American literary fiction that foregrounds students, professors, and campus life. Porter locates the origins of this genre in the Reconstruction era and traces its development through various stages of African American history, into the present day. He argues that academic fiction has long been an important site at which strategies and ideals of racial representation have been articulated and contested. Accordingly, he urges readers to acknowledge the genre as a central, rather than a marginal, form of black writing.” —Aida Levy-Hussen, author of How to Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation
“In this brilliant and insightful book, Lavelle Porter highlights the significance of the Black academic novel—a unique genre that captures the interconnection between higher education and Black literary production. By centering the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, and many others, Porter compellingly shows how Black intellectuals used creative works to challenge racism in the academy and beyond.” —Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

"Reading Porter’s book feels like a necessary reeducation in American history, black history and politics, and, most importantly, black literature and culture. What stands out to me most is Porter’s candid examination of what it means to thrive while simultaneously bearing the burden of representing one’s race and being accused of inauthenticity." —Debarati Biswas, Public Books

"Porter’s study will no doubt be indispensable to those of us who are Blackademics, those in Black studies, as well as those in US history and literature. I highly recommend this book for academic study and also, I dare say, reading for pleasure." —Vershawn Ashanti Young, ALH Online Review

“By framing his literary study within the context of the Trump presidency pitting antiracist movements such as Black Lives Matter against white supremacist ideologues, and by shedding light on the continuity between past and present, Porter not only helps us grasp the depth of white supremacist discourse in American culture but also reminds us of the vital role of literature and intellectuals in the building and preservation of a just society. This is no small achievement at a time when politics and the academia are being torn apart by culture wars. His highly readable piece of scholarship is indeed a most welcome response to the assaults of conservative anti-intellectual forces currently at work in the United States.” —Anne Stefani, Cercles

Descriere

The Blackademic Life offers a fascinating exploration of fiction by black writers on campuses or in scholarly environments. Lavelle Porter demonstrates how black writers have used academic stories to celebrate black intelligence and advocate for black higher education.