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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: LeSeur, Geta J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
West Indian fiction (English) > Black authors > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
African American children in literature.
Children, Black, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Black people in literature.
Bildungsromans.
African American youth in literature.
Roman d'éducation américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman antillais (anglais) > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Enfants noirs américains dans la littérature.
Jeunesse noire américaine dans la littérature.
Enfants noirs dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Jeunesse noire dans la littérature.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Antilles dans la littérature.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Maturation (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction > African American authors.
Literature.
Psychological fiction, American.
Ontwikkelingsromans.
Amerikaans.
West Indies > In literature.
Antilles > Dans la littérature.
West Indies.
English fiction
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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