Deans and Truants : Race and Realism in African American Literature /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Negers.
Bellettrie.
Amerikaans.
Schwarze
Realismus
Rasse > Motiv
Literatur
Kanon
Realism in literature.
Race in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Esthetique noire americaine.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Schwärze
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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