| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages) |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| 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 |
| Summary |
This Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical fiction. Chapters examine works by Ralph Ellison, Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and many others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Literature Online, viewed Aug. 21, 2012) |
| Subject |
African Americans in literature
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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American Literature.
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American fiction -- African American authors.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Graham, Maryemma
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| ISBN |
0511221797 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511999607 |
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0521016371 (pb.) |
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0521815746 |
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9780511221798 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511999604 |
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9780521016377 (pb.) |
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9780521815741 |
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