ETH STD 11AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Larry Neal, Existentialism, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
18 Nov 2020
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Reading standards of white northern critics are insidiously racist. The black artist of the past worked with the white public in mind (xx) Speaking honestly is a fundamental principle of today"s black artistin the hope that a process of de-americanization will occur in every black community in the nation. The problem of the de-americanization of black people lies at the heart of the black. The black aestheticis a corrective--a means of helping black people out of the polluted mainstream of americanismto be an. American writer is to be american, and, for black people, there should no longer be honor attached to either position (xxi). White standards of literary value do not work for black art. Universality is a code word for white norms & used to critique black art. The essential point here is not the presence of [simpson"s] overt hostility; it is the absence of clarity of vision (5). Black writing/art has its own style, evocation, context.
