The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory),

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In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to that race. Consequently, Paul Laurence Dunbar's Negro dialect poems were prized in the first part of the century because - written by a black man - they were not 'imitation' black, while the dialect performances by Zora Neale Hurston were celebrated because, written by a 'real' black, they were not 'imitation' white. The second half of the century, in its dismissal of material segregation, sanctions a notion of black racial meaning as internal and psychological and thus promotes a version of black racial 'truth' as invisible and interior, yet fixed within a stable conception of difference. The Real Negro foregrounds how investments in black racial specificity illuminate the dynamic terms that define what makes a text and a person 'black', while it also reveals how 'blackness', spoken and authentic, guards a more fragile, because unspoken, commitment to the purity and primacy of 'whiteness' as a stable, uncontested ideal.

The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory), by Shelly Eversley

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9120492 in Books
• Brand: Eversley, Shelly
• Published on: 2015-05-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x .30" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory), by Shelly Eversley

About the Author Shelly Eversley, an Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, writes on 20th Century African American Literature, race, gender and sexuality theory. She has two forthcoming books, Integration and Its Discontents and Race and Sex: Theorizations of Literature, Culture and Desire (edited with Robert F. Reid-Pharr).

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Lit lover By James Hughes This book is a true testament to thought in reference to "the place" of the black writer. The issues raised bv the author can be piercing in their clarity. It is a must for any university Lit program or library collection, where real discussion is placed on African-American Literature, thereby American Literature.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The most important book By Mark Twain This really complicated book--with highly informed theoretical concepts--makes a controversial and solid arugment about the making of race in the United States. It should be a mandatory read for anyone interested in twentieth century American and African American literature.

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