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Introduction: The Novel and the Global Reach of Black Lives Matter

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Introduction: The Novel and the Global Reach of Black Lives Matter

Mitchell, Justin; Marx, John; Mitchell, Justin; Marx, John
Novel , Volume 55 (1) – May 1, 2022
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/novel/article-pdf/55/1/1/1611827/1mitchell.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 Introduction: The Novel and the Global Reach of Black Lives Matter JUSTIN MITCHELL AND JOHN MARX The relationship between culture and politics is a fraught one—nowhere more so than in the realm of what we call, for lack of a better term, Black politics. Indeed, in recent years some of the fiercest and most illuminating debates about the status of culture in the political realm and vice versa have taken place among scholars of Black life, many of them novel scholars and, more generally, literary critics. No doubt this has something to do with the paradoxical role that culture has played in Black political life, where it can appear to offer potential not available in the more narrowly defined electoral domain. As Kenneth Warren’s scholarship has ably demonstrated, Black cultural politics emerged in the United States as an “elite- driven” strategy to combat Black disenfranchisement under Jim Crow (“Reply” 407). Outside the United States, and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, one finds a comparable history in which postcolonial liberation and the now-canonical fic- tions of the mid-twentieth-century African novel emerged more or less together. The African literary canon in

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Published: May 1, 2022

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    Lawrence, D. H. Stevick, Philip
  • Realism in the Balance
    Lukács, Georg Livingstone, Rodney Anderson, Perry Mulhern, Francis
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    Rasberry, Vaughn
  • A Reply to My Critics
    Warren, Kenneth