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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maryemma Graham |
| ISBN: | 0521815746 9780521815741 0521016371 9780521016377 |
| OCLC Number: | 51900416 |
| Description: | vxii, 315 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge companions to literature. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maryemma Graham. |
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Abstract:
Features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity.
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