The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to …
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In Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (2017), Joseph North defends close reading,
arguing compellingly that its waning constitutes the depoliticization of literary study, a
regrettable move from interventionist criticism to historicist scholarship. According to
North,“race critique” was part of a “storm” of challenges to midcentury critical norms that
emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and collectively represented a false sense of literary
study's “political” potential (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 56). Thus the many …
arguing compellingly that its waning constitutes the depoliticization of literary study, a
regrettable move from interventionist criticism to historicist scholarship. According to
North,“race critique” was part of a “storm” of challenges to midcentury critical norms that
emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and collectively represented a false sense of literary
study's “political” potential (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 56). Thus the many …
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