{"id":7548,"date":"2020-04-23T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:51:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:51:57","slug":"james-hailes-the-buck-the-black-and-the-existential-hero-2019-subvention-grant-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/james-hailes-the-buck-the-black-and-the-existential-hero-2019-subvention-grant-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"James Haile&#8217;s The Buck, the Black and the Existential Hero, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nupress.northwestern.edu\/content\/buck-black-and-existential-hero\"><i>The Buck, the Black and the Existential Hero<\/i><\/a> (Northwestern University Press, 2020) combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does the experience of being black and male in the modern West affect the telling of a narrative, the shape or structure of a novel, the development of characters and plot lines, and the nature of criticism itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buck, the Black and the Existential Hero (Northwestern University Press, 2020) combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does the experience of being black and male in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[198,149,189,159,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-198","category-facultynews","category-fall","category-grants","category-subvention-grant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7772,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}