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Ten is the age of darkness : the Black Bildungsroman /

In Ten Is the Age of Darkness, Geta LeSeur explores how black authors of the United States and the English-speaking Caribbean have taken a European literary tradition and adapted it to fit their own needs for self-expression. LeSeur begins by defining the European genre of the bildungsroman, then sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: LeSeur, Geta J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. "Out of Many, One": A Case of Multiple Childhoods
  • I. "The Ending Up Is the Starting Out": The Bildungsroman Re/formed
  • II. "Behold the Great Image of Authority": African West Indian Male Initiation
  • III. "His Great Struggle Beginning": African American Male Initiation
  • IV. Womanish Girls: African American Female Initiation
  • V. Journeys to Selfhood: African West Indian Female Initiation
  • Conclusion. Ten Is the Age of Darkness
  • Chronology of the African American Bildungsroman
  • Chronology of the African West Indian Bildungsroman.