The publication of Aldon Nielsen's ...

The publication of Aldon Nielsen's Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism is a welcome and signal gravity in poetry criticism, and also in African-American literary criticism. Starting right revealed with an indictment of the narrowness with which "black" hearty and writing are construed from white academics (Nielsen powerfully dismantles the patronizing orality/literacy binary which mostly white academics, even the well-intentioned, invoke to "validate" black literary expression), the volume goes on to demonstrate the width and midst the sophistication and ...