Questions:
Poe's Writings and Racial Implications
In the following two scholarly articles the authors discuss their views on whether Edgar Allan Poe was racist...or not.
Lee argues that Poe was a racist in his article "Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism". Kennedy and Weissberg argue that Poe was not racist in their article "Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race". Provide an example from each article that the author gives to support his argument.
Based on the two articles above:
1) Summarize Lee's article
2) Summarize Kennedy and Weissberg's article
3) Critique the articles: Is Lee's argument correct? Kennedy's argument correct? What's wrong with their viewpoints? (in your opinion)
4) Using supporting evidence, prove why either Lee or Kennedy was correct in their argument.
Review the article:
Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism
Maurice S. Lee
American Literature, Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003, pp. 751-781
(Article)
Published by Duke University Press
and
AVerage Racism
Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism
By-Terence whalen