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Author Bell, Bernard W.

Title The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches / Bernard W. Bell.

Imprint Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.5409896 B413c 2004    ---  Available
Description xxviii, 490 p. ; 24 cm.
Note Sequel to: The Afro-American novel and its tradition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-461) and index.
Contents Mapping the rhetoric, politics, and poetics of representation 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).
Contemporary African American paraliterature : science/speculative fiction, gay/lesbian, and detective/mystery novels and romances (1983-2001).
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and folklore -- United States.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Folklore.
Folklore in literature.
ISBN 1558494731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558494732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558494723 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558494725 (library cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 265092728
YDXCP 2102975
YDXCP 2102974
NZ1 8547306

 
    
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