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The Cambridge companion to the African American novel / edited by Maryemma Graham.
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Graham, Maryemma
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Language
English
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1st ed.
Published/Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description
xvii, 315 pages ; 24 cm.
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PS374.N4 C36 2004
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Subject(s)
American fiction
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African American authors
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History and criticism
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African Americans
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Intellectual life
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African Americans in literature
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Series
Cambridge companions to literature
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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ISBN
0521815746
9780521815741
0521016371 ((pb.))
9780521016377 ((pb.))
LCCN
2003046126
OCLC
51900416
International Article Number
9780521016377
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