Deans and Truants : Race and Realism in African American Literature /
For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Problem of African American Literature
- Chapter 1. "Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed"
- Chapter 2. "We Must Write Like the White Men"
- Chapter 3. "The Conventional Blindness of the Caucasian Eye"
- Chapter 4. "The Impress of Nationality Rather than Race"
- Chapter 5. ''A Negro Peoples' Movement in Writing"
- Chapter 6. "The Race Problem Was Not a Theme for Me"
- Chapter 7. ''A-World-in-Which-Race-Does-Not-Matter"
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments