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題 名 | From the Black Aesthetic to Black Cultural Studies: An Interview with Houston A. Baker, Jr. |
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作 者 | Lee,Yu-cheng; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 28:4 民87.夏 |
頁 次 | 頁169-193 |
分類號 | 874 |
關鍵詞 | The black aesthetic; Afrocentrism; African American feminism; Rap music; Black cultural nationalism; Generational shift; Blues liberation; Black conservatism; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | In this interview the renowned African American critic Houston A. Baker, Jr. reflects upon his critical enterprise in the last thirty years: how he was trained to be a Victorianist but ended up as a scholar of African American literature and culture. He traces the impact of his bitter childhood experience in segregated Louisville, Kentucky, on his later intellectual development. In his assessment of African American critical industries since the sixties, Baker calls our attention to the contributions of the Black Aesthetic but laments the influence of careerism upon the current status of African American criticism. To clarify his own critical stance, Baker also talks in great detail about some of the major concerns that he has tried to lay out in his various publications. He closes the interview with an exploration of the history and politics of rap as a cultural form for black, urban youth. |
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