The Afro American Novel
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The Afro American Novel And Its Tradition
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Author : Bernard W. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 1987
The Afro American Novel And Its Tradition written by Bernard W. Bell and has been published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study is an addition to the growing body of scholarly analysis examining the Afro-American contribution. It is based on the premise that in the last 25 years the traditional canon of American literature excluded important minority authors. Proceeding chronologically from William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), to experimental novels of the 1980s, Bell comments on more than 150 works, with close readings of 41 novelists. His remarks are framed by an inquiry into the distinctive elements of Afro-American fiction. ISBN 0-87023-568-0 : $25.00.
Passing And The Rise Of The African American Novel
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Author : Maria Giulia Fabi
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2001
Passing And The Rise Of The African American Novel written by Maria Giulia Fabi and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel restores to its rightful place a body of American literature that has long been overlooked, dismissed, or misjudged. This insightful reconsideration of nineteenth-century African-American fiction uncovers the literary artistry and ideological complexity of a body of work that laid the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance and changed the course of American letters. Focusing on the trope of passing -- black characters lightskinned enough to pass for white -- M. Giulia Fabi shows how early African-American authors such as William Wells Brown, Frank J. Webb, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, James Weldon Johnson, Frances E. W. Harper, and Edward A. Johnson transformed traditional representations of blackness and moved beyond the tragic mulatto motif. Celebrating a distinctive, African-American history, culture, and worldview, these authors used passing to challenge the myths of racial purity and the color line. Fabi examines how early black writers adapted existing literary forms, including the sentimental romance, the domestic novel, and the utopian novel, to express their convictions and concerns about slavery, segregation, and racism. She also gives a historical overview of the canon-making enterprises of African-American critics from the 1850s to the 1990s and considers how their concerns about crafting a particular image for African-American literature affected their perceptions of nineteenth-century black fiction.
The Afro American Novel 1965 1975
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Author : Helen Ruth Houston
language : en
Publisher: Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company
Release Date : 1977
The Afro American Novel 1965 1975 written by Helen Ruth Houston and has been published by Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Reference categories.
Afro Realisms And The Romances Of Race
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Author : Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2020-04-15
Afro Realisms And The Romances Of Race written by Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. In Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical views of black identity and experience. In this provocative and challenging book, Daniels-Rauterkus contests the long-standing idea that African Americans did not write literary realism, along with the inverse misconception that white writers did not make important contributions to African American literature. Taking up key works by Charles W. Chesnutt, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, Daniels-Rauterkus argues that authors blended realism with romance, often merging mimetic and melodramatic conventions to advocate on behalf of African Americans, challenge popular theories of racial identity, disrupt the expectations of the literary marketplace, and widen the possibilities for black representation in fiction. Combining literary history with close textual analysis, Daniels-Rauterkus reads black and white writers alongside each other to demonstrate the reciprocal nature of literary production. Moving beyond discourses of racial authenticity and cultural property, Daniels-Rauterkus stresses the need to organize African American literature around black writers and their meditations on blackness, but she also proposes leaving space for nonblack writers whose use of comparable narrative strategies can facilitate reconsiderations of the complex social order that constitutes race in America. With Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Daniels-Rauterkus expands critical understandings of American literary realism and African American literature by destabilizing the rigid binaries that too often define discussions of race, genre, and periodization.
Black Fiction
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Author : A. Robert Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Black Fiction written by A. Robert Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
Afro American Poetics
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Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1988
Afro American Poetics written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
Baker envisages the mission of black culture since the 1920s as "Afro-American spirit work." In the blues, the post-modernist "chant poem," the oratory of Malcolm X and the political plays of Amiri Baraka, Baker notes the unfolding creation of a "racial epic" in which black Americans may discover their place in U.S. society and find their ancestral roots. He analyzes Jean Toomer's stream-of-consciousness protest novel Cane, ponders why apolitical poet Countee Cullen became a voice of the people and pays tribute to critic-poet Larry Neal and to Hoyt Fuller, the editor of Negro Digest who allied himself with the Black Arts movement. He also traces his own shift from "guerrilla theater revolutionary" to embattled theoretician. ISBN 0-299-11500-3: $22.50 (For use only in the library).
The Origins Of African American Literature 1680 1865
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Author : Dickson D. Bruce
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2001
The Origins Of African American Literature 1680 1865 written by Dickson D. Bruce and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and a medium through which black writers have been able to exert considerable authority on both sides of that racial demarcation. Dickson D. Bruce argues that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. Within the context of the wider culture, these writers offered powerful, widely read, and widely appreciated commentaries on American ideals and ambitions. The Origins of African American Literature provides strong evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society as a whole. Along with an extensive discussion of major authors and texts, including Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Martin Delany's Blake, Bruce explores less-prominent works and writers as well, thereby grounding African American writing in its changing historical settings. The Origins of African American Literature is an invaluable revelation of the emergence and sources of the specifically African American literary tradition and the forces that helped shape it.
The Afro American In United States History
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Author : Benjamin DaSilva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Afro American In United States History written by Benjamin DaSilva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with African Americans categories.
Presents an account of the African-American experience in United States history, beginning with African civilizations of the past and continuing though the 1960s. Text is written for high interest/low vocabulary students. Middle school level.
Sweet Home
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Author : Charles Scruggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Sweet Home written by Charles Scruggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this groundbreaking book Charles Scruggs identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the twentieth-century Afro-American novel, resulting in a rich fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Sport of the Gods" through Toni Morrison's "Beloved." Scruggs begins by discussing the treatment of the Great Migration to the city in Afro-American writing from W. E. B. DuBois and Dunbar through the Harlem writers, establishing both the continuities and breaks between that tradition and that of the writers coming after the Depression. He then considers how four post-Harlem Renaissance novelists--Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison--conceive of the modern city. Scruggs shows how these four writers see the Afro-American's relationship to elite, popular, and mass forms of culture in city life. He also explores the ways in which their writing presents "alternative spaces" that exist alongside of, and often counter to, the visible configurations of the dominant culture.
A Companion To African American Literature
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Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-02-25
A Companion To African American Literature written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices