Title Deans and truants : race and realism in African American literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontmatter -- 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index Notes In English Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. African American aesthetics. Race in literature. Realism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. African American aesthetics. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. Race in literature. Realism in literature. Kanon Literatur Rasse Motiv Realismus Schwarze Amerikaans. Bellettrie. Negers. USA Schwärze Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2006044662 ISBN 9780812202359 081220235X

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