THE ASSIMILATIONIST IMPULSE IN FOUR AFRICAN AMERICAN NARRATIVES: Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, and Leroi Jones
| Author: | Thompson, Gordon | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 252 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-1555-6 978-0-7734-1555-3 | |
| Price: | $199.95 + shipping | |
| (Click the PayPal button to buy) | ||
Author takes on a dynamic subject: the quest to analyze themes of assimilation on the part of African-American protagonists and the influence of white women in this area. The work reveals a quest for ideological plentitude all constructed upon the portal of assimilation catalyzed by significant encounters with white women. The work examines black authored texts that show the seminal bi-racial encounters often reflected in American and African-American texts.
Reviews
“[The author] has provided us with a new and needed discussion of some of our most important African-American literary classics. He has also reopened a huge debate…that will create controversy in discussions of African-American life and culture. – Prof. Robert B. Stepto, Yale University
“…bold and original….The book distinguishes itself in what has become an increasingly important field.” – Prof. Marcellus Blount, Columbia University
“…bold and original….The book distinguishes itself in what has become an increasingly important field.” – Prof. Marcellus Blount, Columbia University
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Frederick Douglass and Assimilation in the 1845 Narrative
Chapter 2 Figures of Acculturation in Douglass, Stowe, and Washington
Chapter 3 The Chameleon of Uplift in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Chapter 4 Richard Wright and Reactionary Assimilation
Chapter 5 “A Tradition You Ought to Feel Repressed By”: The Ex-Assimilation of LeRoiJones
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Frederick Douglass and Assimilation in the 1845 Narrative
Chapter 2 Figures of Acculturation in Douglass, Stowe, and Washington
Chapter 3 The Chameleon of Uplift in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Chapter 4 Richard Wright and Reactionary Assimilation
Chapter 5 “A Tradition You Ought to Feel Repressed By”: The Ex-Assimilation of LeRoiJones
Bibliography
Index