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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 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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.