Title Black literature in white America / Berndt Ostendorf

Published Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books, 1982

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Description ix, 171 pages ; 23 cm Series Studies in contemporary literature & culture ; no.9 Studies in contemporary literature & culture ; no.9 Contents Rediscovering an invisible culture -- Double consciousness : the marginal perspective in language, oral culture, folklore, religion -- Minstrelsy : imitation, parody and travesty in black-white interaction rituals 1830-1920 -- Social mobility and cultural stigma : the case of Chicago jazz 1920-1930 -- Oral tradition and the quest for literacy : the crisis of black writers from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison -- Contemporary Afro-American culture : the sixties and seventies Analysis Geschichte 1830-1980 Notes Includes bibliographical references and index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Also issued online Subject African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Race identity. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans -- Social life and customs. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- History and criticism. Race awareness in literature. LC no. 81019089 ISBN 0389202576 071080041X (U.K.)

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