Deans and Truants : Race and Realism in African American Literature.
Title:
Deans and Truants : Race and Realism in African American Literature.
Author:
Jarrett, Gene Andrew.
ISBN:
9780812202359
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of 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.
Abstract:
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 at the cost of critical dismissal or obscurity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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