Writing America Black

Race Rhetoric in the Public Sphere

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by C.K. Doreski

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published December 1998, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 052156462X

Doreski examines the African American press and selected literary works by black authors. By viewing the journalist's role as historian, reporter, tastemaker, and propagandist, he reveals the close bond to a larger African American literary tradition.

Table of Contents

PART ONE; HISTORY, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN WAY
Race Progress and Exemplary Biography
Reading Riot
Rendezvous with Modernism, Fascism, and Democracy
If I were a Negro

PART TWO; DECOMPOSING UNITIES, DECONSTRUCTING NATIONAL NARRATIVES
Reportage as Redemption
Kinship as History
Nation-ness as Consciousness
History as Storytelling

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture