Praisesong of survival : lectures and essays, 1957-89 / Richard K. Barksdale ; preface by Dolan Hubbard ; introduction by R. Baxter Miller.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Dolan Hubbard
- Introduction / R. Baxter Miller
- pt. 1. Literary Canons and Blackness. Thomas Arnold's Attitude toward Race (1957). History, Slavery, and Thematic Irony in Huckleberry Finn (1985). Critical Theory and Problems of Canonicity in African American Literature (1989)
- pt. 2. The Humanities beyond Literary Canons. Humanistic Protest in Recent Black Poetry (1973). Ethical Invisibility and the New Humanism (1974). The Humanities: The Eye of the Needle in the Black Experience (1984)
- pt. 3. Literary Forms of Historical Survival. Metaphors of Black American Literary History. Urban Crisis and the Black Poetic Avant-Garde. White Triangles, Black Circles (1975). Comic Irony. Black America and the Mask of Comedy (1973). Black Autobiography and the Comic Vision (1981). Comic Relief in Langston Hughes's Poetry (1981)
- pt. 4. Praisesong for Black Women Writers. Diction and Style in Selected Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1984). Margaret Danner and the African Connection (1978). Margaret Walker: Folk Orature and Historical Prophecy (1986). Castration Symbolism in Recent Black American Fiction (1985). In Search of the Unbroken Circle: Black Nurturing in Selected Novels of Toni Morrison (1989)
- pt. 5. The Blues He Could Not Lose: Langston Hughes and His Work. Humanistic Techniques Employed in Hughes's Poetry (1981). Hughes: Blues, Jazz, and Low-Down Folks (1977). Hughes's Poetry of the 1930's: A New Song for an Old Hurt (1977)
- Miscegenation on Broadway: Hughes's Mulatto and Edward Sheldon's The Nigger (1986). Langston Hughes and James Baldwin: Some Observations on a Literary Relationship (1988). Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Poet, the Preacher, and the Dream (1988)
- pt. 6. Conclusion. The Graduate Experience from a Minority Perspective (1989)