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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America: 7 (Cultural Margins, Series Number 7) - Softcover

Mostern, Kenneth

 
9780521646796: Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America: 7 (Cultural Margins, Series Number 7)

Synopsis

A study of autobiography in twentieth-century African American culture.

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Review

"Mostern provides intriguing readings of...the autobiographies he presents." American Literature

Book Description

Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks.

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