Title African American writing : a literary approach / Werner Sollors

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Olaudah Equiano, an Enlightenment Cosmopolitan in the Age of Slavery; 2. The Philadelphian Novelist Frank Webb Anticipates the Future; 3. The Goopher in Charles W. Chesnutt's Conjure Tales: Superstition, Ethnicity, and Modern Metamorphoses ; 4. Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America; 5. African American Intellectuals and Europe between the Two World Wars; 6. W.E.B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany, 1936; 7. Modernization as Adultery: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and American Culture of the 1930s and 1940s 8. Of Mules and Mares in a Land of Difference or, Quadrupeds All?; 9. The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois; 10. Owls and Rats in the American Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy's Drama; 11. LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Dutchman; 12. Obligations to Negroes Who Would Be Kin if They Were Not Negro; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. African Americans in literature American literature -- African American authors Race relations in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781439913383 1439913382

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