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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description
xvii, 315 p. ; 23 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Related name
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 (p. 268-295) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
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.
Other title(s)
  • Companion to the African American novel
  • African American novel
  • Cambridge companions online.
ISBN
  • 0521815746
  • 0521016371 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2003046126
OCLC
51900416
RCP
H - S
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