The Cambridge companion to the African American novel / edited by Maryemma Graham.

Editor
Graham, Maryemma [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description
xvii, 315 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Cambridge companions to literature [More in this series]
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0521815746
    • 9780521815741
    • 0521016371 ((pb.))
    • 9780521016377 ((pb.))
    LCCN
    2003046126
    OCLC
    51900416
    International Article Number
    • 9780521016377
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