内容简介
What does it mean to be black and male in 20th-century
America? The notion of the unitary “black man” is as illusory as
the creature conjured up by Wallace Stevens in his poem “Thirteen
Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, says Gates. With these eight
essays–most of which appeared originally in “The New Yorker”–the
chair of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies department takes a close
look at some of the most extraordinary figures of our time National
lecture tour .
作者简介
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of
Humanities and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at
Harvard University. He has been the editor of such collections as
Reading Black, Reading Feminist, The Norton Anthology of
African-American Literature, the forty-volume Schomburg Library of
Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers 1910-1940, and the series
editor of the complete works of Zora Neale Hurston. He is the
author of The Signifying Monkey, which received the American Book
Award, Figures in Black, and the memoir Colored People, among other
books. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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