The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
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- Editor: Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas
- Date Published: May 2004
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- isbn: 9780521016377
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Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity.
Read more- A unique overview of African American writing which will be of interest to students and teachers
- Examines a wide range of topics including slavery, the blues novel, the Harlem Renaissance, the protest novel and contemporary novels
- Written by a team of carefully selected authors from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the USA, representing a variety of critical trends and scholarly backgrounds
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"Considered separately, the essays in this book are significant works of criticism examining a broad range of the issues implicated in African American literary history. Viewed as a whole, they engage in the kind of open reading 'companion' editor Maryemma Graham cautions is our best approach to the African American novel--one that does not flinch at the vastness of the project." North Dakota Quarterly, Lisa Trochmann, University of Minnesota
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- Date Published: May 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521016377
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.532kg
- contains: 1 table
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Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Chronology
Introduction Maryemma Graham
Part I. The Long Journey: The African American Novel and History:
1. Freeing the voice, creating the self: the novel and slavery Chris Mulvey
2. Reconstructing the race: the novel after slavery M. Guilia Fabi
3. The novel of the New Negro Renaissance George Hutchinson
4. Caribbean migration, ex-isles, and the New World novel Giselle Liza Anatol
Part II. Search for a Form: The New American Novel:
5. The neo slave narrative Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
6. Coming of age in the African American novel Claudine Raynaud
7. The blues novel Steven Tracy
8. From modernism to post modernism: black culture at the crossroads Fritz Gysin
9. The African American novel and popular culture Susanne Dietzel
Part III: African American Voices: From Margin to Center:
10. Everybody's protest novel: the era of Richard Wright Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
11. Finding common ground: Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin Herman Beavers
12. American neo-hoodooism: the novels of Ishmael Reed Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
13. Spaces for readers: the novels of Toni Morrison Marilyn Mobley Mckenzie
14. African American womanism: from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker Lovalerie King
15. Vernacular modernism in the novels of John Edgar Wideman and Leon Forrest Keith Byerman.
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