Racist Traces and Other Writing

European Pedigrees/ African Contagions

James A Snead author Colin MacCabe editor C West editor K Keeling editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:18th Mar '03

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Racist Traces and Other Writing cover

James Snead wrote "Figures of Division: William Faulkner's Major Novels" and "White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side. (He died in 1989).

This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction.This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. Snead. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction. Published posthumously, the volume attests to Snead's unique intellectual commitment to a critical engagement with the interconnections between European and African American cultural formations.

'This long awaited book is a gem - yet still a small part of the huge corpus of the life of James Snead. He stands among the most important American intellectuals in the late 20th Century.' - Cornel West, Professor of Afro-American Studies, Princeton, USA

ISBN: 9781403911834

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 418g

256 pages

2003 ed.