How Long to Read Connecting Times

How Long Does it Take to Read Connecting Times?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 22 minutes to read Connecting Times by Norman Harris

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This stimulating study of black literature of the 1960s is an analysis of a period of American history through the literary art it produced. In Connecting Times Norman Harris focuses on how Afro-Americans involved in the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power movement, or the Vietnam War either failed or achieved in making sense of their lives when the goals they struggled for were not accomplished. In seven novels whose plot and characterization are determined by one or more of these major historical events -- Meridian, Look What They Done to My Song, The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Captain Blackman, Coming Home, and Tragic Magic -- Harris finds the basis for his interpretations, and he finds the place of these novels likewise in the context of historical writings of the 1960s. Central to Harris's analysis of history through literature is the idea of the quest myth that permeates Afro-American culture. According to Robert Stepto, the quest is for freedom and literacy, freedom as an end to slavery and literacy as the ability to read, write, and indeed to interpret cultural signs. For those Afro-Americans attuned to their culture this symbolic meaning manifests a collective significance for Afro-American cultural symbols. It is these whom Harris considers truly literate. He extends his concept of freedom to knowledge of the many options available in the reservoir of Afro-American history. This freedom is knowledge of racial memory, and one's awareness of this racial memory and its effect upon individuals in confrontational situations determines one's degree of literacy. It is these definitions of freedom and literacy and the Afro-American quest for them that Harris applies in his analysis of literature set against the historical backdrop of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Vietnam. This study of American social history under the illuminating ray of the novels rising out of the black struggle for freedom and literacy offers valuable insights and new interpretations for a pivotal time in the United States.

How long is Connecting Times?

Connecting Times by Norman Harris is 197 pages long, and a total of 50,629 words.

This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Connecting Times Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Connecting Times aloud.

What Reading Level is Connecting Times?

Connecting Times is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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