Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the contours of contemporary social and political dynamics or abandoning race as an important issue in the study of American literature and culture. Most important, they do a disservice to the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and others who have fought for black rights.
In the literature, speeches, and academic and public behavior of some black intellectuals in the past quarter century, Baker identifies a "hungry generation" eager for power, respect, and money. Baker critiques his own impoverished childhood in the "Little Africa" section of Louisville, Kentucky, to understand the shaping of this new public figure. He also revisits classical sites of African American literary and historical criticism and critique. Baker devotes chapters to the writing and thought of such black academic superstars as Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele; Yale law professor Stephen Carter; and Manhattan Institute fellow John McWhorter. His provocative investigation into their disingenuous posturing exposes what Baker deems a tragic betrayal of King's legacy.
Baker concludes with a discussion of American myth and the role of the U.S. prison-industrial complex in the "disappearing" of blacks. Baker claims King would have criticized these black intellectuals for not persistently raising their voices against a private prison system that incarcerates so many men and women of color. To remedy this situation, Baker urges black intellectuals to forge both sacred and secular connections with local communities and rededicate themselves to social responsibility. As he sees it, the mission of the black intellectual today is not to do great things but to do specific, racially based work that is in the interest of the black majority.
Автор: Sharon Achinstein Название: Literature and Dissent in Milton`s England ISBN: 0521818044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521818049 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14279 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The England of John Milton’s great poems was the England of Dissenters, those who refused to join the state Church after the return of monarchy in 1660, seen as dangerous outcasts and rebels. Sharon Achinstein’s book shows how a literary tradition of dissent was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England, bringing to view a range of writing that has been largely, and unjustly, neglected. Considering authors both inside and outside the dissenting tradition, including Milton, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Mary Mollineux, John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Isaac Watts, and other little-known dissenting writers, Achinstein shows how a distinctive Dissenting cultural legacy challenges our notions of literary history, aesthetic value and the relation between literature and politics. This important study will be of interest to Milton scholars and seventeenth-century literary and religious historians.
Автор: Katharine Gillespie Название: Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century ISBN: 052183063X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521830638 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13558 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the separation of church from state, privacy, and individualism. Gillespie argues that their sermons, prophesies, and petitions illustrate the fact that these liberal theories did not originate only with such well-known male thinkers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Rather, they emerged also from a group of determined female religious dissenters who used the Bible to reassess traditional definitions of womanhood, public speech and religious and political authority. Gillespie takes the ‘pamphlet literatures’ of the seventeenth century as important subjects for analysis, and her study contributes to the growing scholarship on the revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of the mid-seventeenth-century Civil War in England.
Автор: Sharon Achinstein Название: Literature and Dissent in Milton`s England ISBN: 0521050707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521050708 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6325 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The England of John Milton’s great poems was the England of Dissenters, those who refused to join the state Church after the return of monarchy in 1660, seen as dangerous outcasts and rebels. Sharon Achinstein’s book shows how a literary tradition of dissent was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England, bringing to view a range of writing that has been largely, and unjustly, neglected. Considering authors both inside and outside the dissenting tradition, including Milton, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Mary Mollineux, John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Isaac Watts, and other little-known dissenting writers, Achinstein shows how a distinctive Dissenting cultural legacy challenges our notions of literary history, aesthetic value and the relation between literature and politics. This important study will be of interest to Milton scholars and seventeenth-century literary and religious historians.
Автор: Edited by Rita Copeland Название: Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0521024439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521024433 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4698 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What were the boundaries between ‘official’ and ‘subversive’, ‘orthodox’ and ‘dissenting’ critical practices in the Middle Ages? Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders. Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and hermeneutics, academic ‘sciences’, clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy are all considered. This collection of new essays by major scholars examines medieval critical discourse, theories of textuality and interpretation, and representations of learning and knowledge – as contesting and contested institutional practices within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.
Автор: Gillespie Название: Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century ISBN: 0521120225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521120227 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6506 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom.
Автор: Daniel E. White Название: Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent ISBN: 052185895X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521858953 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13558 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. It is generally known that many individuals who contributed to the new literatures of the late eighteenth century came from Dissenting backgrounds, but we nonetheless often underestimate the full significance of nonconformist beliefs and practices during this period. Daniel White provides a clear and useful introduction to Dissenting communities, focusing on Anna Barbauld and her familial network of heterodox 'liberal' Dissenters whose religious, literary, educational, political, and economic activities shaped the public culture of early Romanticism in England. He goes on to analyze the roles of nonconformity within the lives and writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, offering a Dissenting genealogy of the Romantic movement.
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