{"id":19007,"date":"2011-12-15T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19007"},"modified":"2011-12-15T04:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:30:48","slug":"he-speaks-in-your-voice-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19007","title":{"rendered":"He speaks in your voice: American."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/magazine\/fall09\/jarrett\/\" target=\"_blank\">He speaks in your voice: American.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>arts &amp; sciences<br \/>\nBoston College<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/magazine\/fall09\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tricia Brick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/people\/faculty\/gene-andrew-jarrett\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Andrew Jarrett<\/a> began his 2006 book <em>Deans and Truants<\/em> with a deceptively simple question: What is African American literature? The term, after all, refers not merely to the subject matter of the works it describes but to literature that both represents the African American experience and is written by authors who are themselves black. But what, then, of black authors who have written works without black characters? Or of those who are of mixed race? \u201cYou can\u2019t take this question for granted, because it\u2019s at the heart of so many questions of human identity and, in particular, race,\u201d says Jarrett, an associate professor of English.<\/p>\n<p>The editor of such books as <em>African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader<\/em> and T<em>he New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture<\/em>, 1892\u20131938 (with Harvard\u2019s Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Jarrett has spent his career studying racial representation in American literature\u2014in particular, how African Americans have been understood both as characters in and as authors of literary works over the last two centuries. His <em>Deans and Truants<\/em> looks at black authors throughout American history who have used literature to challenge beliefs about race that were accepted as truths in their day.<\/p>\n<p>And in his forthcoming book <em>Representing the Race: The Politics of African American Literature from Jefferson to Obama<\/em>, Jarrett examines the political implications of African American literature\u2014from the role that Phillis Wheatley\u2019s poetry played in Thomas Jefferson\u2019s disparagement of African American political unity to the role that Barack Obama\u2019s <em>Dreams from My Father<\/em> has had in shaping the bipartisan, pragmatic political culture of his presidency&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/magazine\/fall09\/jarrett\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He speaks in your voice: American. arts &amp; sciences Boston College Fall 2009 Tricia Brick Gene Andrew Jarrett began his 2006 book Deans and Truants with a deceptively simple question: What is African American literature? The term, after all, refers not merely to the subject matter of the works it describes but to literature that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[8739,8723,8722,8724,8740],"class_list":["post-19007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-arts-sciences","tag-gene-a-jarrett","tag-gene-andrew-jarrett","tag-gene-jarrett","tag-tricia-brick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}