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African-American Criticism in Literary Theory - Lecture 21

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This lecture surveys African-American literary criticism through Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Toni Morrison. It considers essentialism, identity, expropriation, feminist theory, Morrison’s reading of Huckleberry Finn, and tensions with New Criticism.

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- Chapter 1. Origins of African-American Literary Criticism
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- Chapter 2. Henry Louis Gates and the Problem of Essentialism
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- Chapter 3. The Problem of the "Identity Cue"
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- Chapter 4. Tony Morrison and African-American Identity
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- Chapter 5. Morrison's Reading of Huckleberry Finn
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- Chapter 6. Gates and the Community of African-American Critics
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- Chapter 7. Expropriation
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