| Phys. Description |
xvii, 315 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-295) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Maryemma Graham -- PART I: THE LONG JOURNEY: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL AND HISTORY -- Freeing the voice, creating the self: the novel and slavery / Christopher Mulvey -- Reconstructing the race: the novel after slavery / M. Giulia Fabi -- The novel of the Negro Renaissance / George Hutchinson -- Caribbean migration, ex-isles, and the New World novel / Giselle Liza Anatol -- PART II: SEARCH FOR A FORM: THE NEW AMERICAN NOVEL -- The neo-slave narrative / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy -- Coming of age in the African American novel / Claudine Raynaud -- The blues novel / Steven C. Tracy -- From modernism to postmodernism: black literature at the crossroads / Fritz Gysin -- The African American novel and popular culture / Susanne B. Dietzel -- PART III: AFRICAN AMERICAN VOICES: FROM MARGIN TO CENTER -- Everybody's protest novel: the era of Richard Wright / Jerry W. Ward Jr. -- Finding common ground: Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin / Herman Beavers -- American Neo-HooDooism: the novels of Ishmael Reed / Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure -- Spaces for readers: the novels of Toni Morrison / Marilyn Mobley McKenzie -- African American womanism: from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker / Lovalerie King -- Vernacular modernism in the novels of John Edgar Wideman and Leon Forrest / Keith Byerman. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans in literature.
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| Alt Author |
Graham, Maryemma.
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| ISBN |
0521815746 |
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0521016371 (pb.) |
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