"Race," Writing, and Difference

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor)

A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse. Now, fifteen years after their first publication, these essays have managed to escape the cliches associated with the race-class-gender trinity of '80s criticism, and remain a provocative overview of the complex interplay between race, writing, and difference.

Genres: History, Race, Philosophy

428 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies.

Reviews

[Sara-Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth reading, and re-reading.