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The Contemporary African American Novel : Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches

Attribution
Bernard W. Bell
Publication Details
Book, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.N4 B45 2004 AVAILABLE
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Description
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. His primary focus, however, is on some forty novels and romances published between 1983 and 2001, including works by Gayl Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Albert Murray, Gloria Naylor, Al Young, David Bradley, Leon Forrest, and Charles Johnson, as well as the neo-Black Aesthetic novelists Nathaniel Mackey, Trey Ellis, Percival L. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Bell, Bernard W
Subject
Places in this work
- United States.
Notes
- Sequel to: The Afro-American novel and its tradition
Contents
- 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)
ISBN
- 1558494731
- 1558494723
LCCN
- 2004013508
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3293699M