{"id":24,"date":"2014-02-09T21:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:51:59","slug":"two-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Two Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is how I want to guide the introduction to the concept of a Black literary tradition:<\/p>\n<p>To be an Afro-American, or an American black, is to be in the situation, intolerably exaggerated, of all those who have ever found themselves part of a civilization which they could in no wise honorable defend-which they were compelled, indeed, endlessly to\u00c2\u00a0attack and condemn-and who yet spoke out of the most passionate love, hoping to make the\u00c2\u00a0kingdom new, to make it honorable and worthy of life.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201cJames Baldwin,\u00c2\u00a0<i>No Name in the Street<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0(1972)<\/p>\n<p>The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Toni Morrison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is how I want to guide the introduction to the concept of a Black literary tradition: To be an Afro-American, or an American black, is to be in the situation, intolerably exaggerated, of all those who have ever found themselves part of a civilization which they could in no wise honorable defend-which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baldwin","category-morrison","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}