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...Rampersad, whose recently published biography of Langston Hughes received national acclaim, is "a master scholar and is world class by any standards," according to Baker. But Baker cautions against placing Rampersad, who received his Ph.D at Harvard, in the same category with the literary theorists. "He doesn't really see the same urgency and incumbency to theorize," Baker says...
...whether or not Harvard succeeds in hiring Gates or Rampersad, Sollors, who himself focusues on Black literature, says the recent innovations in literary studies will have an impact on the future of the field at Harvard. "We have a very interesting recent mountain of good books upon which to build," he says...
...been a long struggle really--players have changed, standards have changed, conditions have changed. Today, Afro-American studies in literature have levels of prestige never before attained. We are in a mini-Golden Age," Rampersad says. "But we've got to remember the struggle--the Black academic community must understand what the field is all about...
...Arnold Rampersad, the Columbia professor Harvard hopes to lure to Cambridge for a joint appointment in the Afro-Am and English Departments, says his interest in Black literature was born during the political turmoil of the late 1960s...
...Rampersad, whose recent biography of Langston Hughes is "the founding work in Afro-American literary biography," according to University of Pennsylvania Professor Houston Baker, is part of a new generation of Black scholars, educated in top-flight universities around the period of the Civil Rights movement and the student anti-war movement...