Reviews for Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

The average rating for Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-11 00:00:00 Jacob A Weary Joseph Maddrey ΦBK, James Madison University, 2015 Author From the publisher: This chronological survey of major influences on T.S. Eliot's worldview covers the poet's spiritual and intellectual evolution in stages, by trying to see the world as Eliot did. It examines his childhood influences as well as the literary influences that inspired him to write his earliest poetry; his life as an American expatriate living in London from 1915 to 1930, including his ill-fated marriage and his intellectual engagement with the literary traditions of his new country; and the ways in which his intellectual pursuits fostered a spiritual rebirth that simultaneously reflected his past and revealed his future, demonstrating how the early Romantic revolutionary became a staunch defender of tradition.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-22 00:00:00 Albert Baur Thorough, entertaining, and helpful. A boon to any devotee of Auden.