Deans and truants : race and realism in African American literature /

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For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on African American characters? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Geschichte.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Race in literature.
Realism in literature.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Esthétique noire américaine.
Race dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African American aesthetics
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Intellectual life
American literature > African American authors
Race in literature
Realism in literature
Kanon
Literatur
Rasse > Motiv
Realismus
Schwarze
Amerikaans.
Bellettrie.
Zwarten.
USA
Schwärze
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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