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What Was African American Literature? The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures What Was African American Liter ature? Kenneth W. Warren Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, Eng land 2011 Copyright © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Warren, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Wayne) What was African American literature? / Kenneth W. Warren. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 04922- 2 (alk. paper) 1. American literature— African American authors— History and criticism— Theory, etc. 2. African Americans in literature. I. Title. PS153.N5W348 2010 810.9'896073—dc22 2010015714 In memoriam Autry L. Warren Nora Frances Warren Contents Ac know ledg ments ix 1. Historicizing African American Literature 1 2. Particularity and the Problem of Interpretation 44 3. The Future of the Past 81 Conclusion: The Past in the Present 118 Notes 151 Index 169 Ac know ledg ments My thanks to Henry Louis Gates Jr. and to the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for the opportunity to give the 2007 W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures, which form the basis for this book. A portion of Chapter 2 was delivered as “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Dusk of Dawn: The End of a Beginning in African Americanist Inquiry” at the Hart Institute at Pomona College as part of its 2002–2 003 Lec- ture Series “Public Intellectuals/Public Issues.” I’m also in- debted to the participants in the American Cultures Workshop at the University of Chicago for helpful responses to portions of the text. And as always, thanks to Maria.
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