| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 847 pages) |
| Series |
Complete Cambridge histories online. Literary studies |
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Complete Cambridge histories online. Literary studies
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| Contents |
Introduction / Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward -- Sounds of a tradition : the souls of Black folk / F. Abiola Irele -- Early print literature of Africans in America / Philip Gould -- The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760-1820 / Vincent Carretta -- Dividing a nation, uniting a people : African American literature and the abolitionist movement / Stefan M. Wheelock -- African American literature and the abolitionist movement, 1845 to the Civil War / John Ernest -- Writing freedom : race, religion, and revolution, 1820-1840 / Kimberly Blockett -- "We wish to plead our own cause" : independent antebellum African American literature, 1840-1865 / Joycelyn Moody -- Racial ideologies in theory and practice : political and cultural nationalism, 1865-1910 / Warren J. Carson -- The "fictions" of race / Keith Byerman and Hanna Wallinger -- "We wear the mask" : the making of a poet / Keith Leonard -- Toward a modernist poetics / Mark A. Sanders -- Foundations of African American modernism, 1910-1950 / Craig H. Werner and Sandra G. Shannon -- The New Negro movement and the politics of art / Emily Bernard -- African American literature and the Great Depression / Darryl Dickson-Carr -- Weaving jagged words : the Black Left, 1930s-1940s / Nicole Waligora-Davis -- Writing the American story, 1945-1952 / John Lowe -- Geographies of the modern : writing beyond borders and boundaries / Sabine Broeck -- African American literature by writers of Caribbean descent / Daryl Cumber Dance -- Reform and revolution, 1965-1976 : the Black aesthetic at work / James E. Smethurst and Howard Ramsby II -- History as fact and fiction / Trudier Harris -- Redefining the art of poetry / Opal J. Moore -- Cultural resistance and avant-garde aesthetics : African American poetry from 1970 to the present / Tony Bolden -- New frontiers, cross-currents and convergences : emerging cultural paradigms / Madhu Dubey and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Children's and young adult literatures / Giselle Liza Anatol -- From writer to reader : Black popular fiction / Candice Love Jackson -- Cultural capital and the presence of Africa : Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and the power of Black theater / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- African American literature : foundational scholarship, criticism and theory / Lawrence P. Jackson -- African American literatures and New World cultures / Kenneth W. Warren |
| Summary |
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions of African-descended peoples in the USA. Both a work of reference and a compelling narrative, it will remain essential reading for scholars and students in years to come |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-806) and index |
| In |
Cambridge Histories Online. Cambridge University Press |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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American literature -- African American authors
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Schwarze
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Literatur
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Bellettrie.
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Amerikaans.
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Zwarten.
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Literatur -- USA -- Afroamerikanische Autoren.
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African American literature -- History and criticism.
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Amerikansk litteratur -- afro-amerikanska författare -- historia.
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Afro-amerikaner -- intellektuellt liv.
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Afro-amerikaner i litteraturen.
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Graham, Maryemma.
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Ward, Jerry W., Jr., 1943-
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| ISBN |
9780511780967 |
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0511780966 |
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9780511780967 |
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9781107571815 |
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1107571812 |
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