{"id":1439,"date":"2011-10-16T07:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2011-10-16T07:41:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:41:18","slug":"102-video-african-american-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"#102, Video: African-American Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#102 | October 17 | ISSN 0975-3036<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines trends in African-American criticism through the lens of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. A brief history of African-American literature and criticism is undertaken, and the relationship of both to feminist theory is explicated. The problems in cultural and identity studies of essentialism, \u201cthe identity queue,\u201d expropriation, and biology are surveyed, with particular attention paid to the work of Michael Cooke and Morrison\u2019s reading of Huckleberry Finn. At the lecture\u2019s conclusion, the tense relationship between African-American studies and New Critical assumptions are explored with reference to Robert Penn Warren\u2019s poem, \u201cPondy Woods.\u201d<\/p>\n