[Review of] Aldon Lynn Nielsen, ed. Reading Race in American Poetry: An Area of Act

Authors

Dean Rader

Orginal Publication Date

2001

Journal Title

Ethnic Studies Review

Volume

24

Issue

esr/vol24/iss1

First Page

161

Last Page

163

Comments

Analytical Traditions

Abstract

For some time now it has been fashionable when reviewing any sort of anthology to focus critical lens on what the anthology leaves out. In both formal and informal reviews of literary anthologies and collections of essays what an editor does not include in his or her text often takes precedent over the relative virtues of the texts actually appearing in the anthology itself. In the most postmodern of moments, absence erases presence.

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