How their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors : Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature.

The book examines fictional responses of African American expatriate writers to Europe in the 1960s. It analyzes the change in the African American perception of Europe and seeks to reveal how African American writers of the 1960s responded in imaginative ways to the European scene.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luczak, Ewa Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Temas:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American authors > Homes and haunts > Europe.
African Americans > Europe > History.
Expatriation in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains noirs américains > Résidences et lieux familiers > Europe.
Noirs américains > Europe > Histoire.
Expatriation dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans.
American fiction > African American authors.
Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Europe > In literature.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From enchantment to criticism of colonial France: James Baldwin's "This morning, this evening, so soon" and William Gardner Smith's The stone face
  • Escaping racial determinism: Frank Yerby's Parisian romance Speak now
  • From skepticism to new humanisms or when Europe and Africa converse in Rome: William Demby's The catacombs
  • Resisting the European seductress in Copenhagen: Cecil Brown's The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass nigger
  • The quality of hurt: European exile and John A Williams's The man who cried I am
  • When the United States becomes a point of unavoidable return.

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