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The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches /

In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. The book won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the College Language Association and was reprinted five times....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bell, Bernard W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Mapping the rhetoric, politics, and poetics of representaton in the contemporary African American novel
  • Roots of the contemporary African American novel
  • Mapping the peaks and valleys of the African American novel (1853-1962)
  • Forms of neorealism : critical and poetic realism (1962-1983)
  • Modernism and postmodernism (1962-1983)
  • Continuity and change in ethnic tropes of identity formation (1983-2001)
  • New black aesthetic : Eurocentric metafiction and African Americentric tropes of transcultural identity and community (1983-2001).
  • Contemporary African American paraliterature : science/speculative fiction, gay/lesbian, and detective/mystery novels and romances (1983-2001).