F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J.B. Yet, as William J. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for blac
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| Title | : | F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691130205 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-04 |
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Editorial : Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2015
Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
"An immensely important story about the black authors that we thought we knew, from the 'notorious negro revolutionary' Claude McKay to the Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez. A welcome model for seeing state interference in culture as a two-way street."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"F. B. Eyes is pitched at both academic and general readers. It makes an unexpected addition to studies of twentieth-century African American literature and succeeds in presenting J. Edgar Hoover as a more complex figure than James Baldwin's telling description of him: as "history's most highly paid (and most utterly useless) voyeur."--Douglas Field, Times Literary Supplement
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century.T
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