Author: Lovaleserie & Moody-Turner Shirley King

Cites

• Kenneth Warren (1)
  • IN: Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013) American Literature, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But whether an author protested Jim Crow directly or strived to produce a work in which race didn't matter, what made African American literature a literature was the historical circumstance in which black literary achievement could cound, almost automatically, as an effort on behalf of the "race" as a whole. That circumstance was Jim Crow or legalised segregation. We are no longer in that moment. Nothing makes the work of any individual black writer a matter for the "race" as a whole.
    FROM: The End of African American Literature? A Chat with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ken Warren, (2011), Interview, US
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1)
  • IN: Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013) American Literature, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: c Black writers started reading and revising each other's works, situating their representations of their own experiences and those of other black people, in the tropes and metaphors of other black writers. That is what a literary tradition is: it is a body of texts defined by signifying relations of revision. Like it or not, black literature, because of this, is here to stay.
    FROM: The End of African American Literature? A Chat with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ken Warren, (2011), Interview, US