The Blackademic Life
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The Blackademic Life
Author | : Lavelle Porter |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810141019 |
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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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