| Description |
xv, 230 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Humor in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Slanting the truth: homosexuality, manhood, and race in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room -- New invisible man: revisiting a nightmare in the 1990s (Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man) -- Zapping the editor, or, how to tell censors to kiss off without really trying: Zora Neale Hurston's fights with authority figures in Dust tracks on a road -- Architecture as destiny? Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul -- The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays -- Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison -- Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer -- Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth" -- Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth -- Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
|
|
American literature -- African American authors. |
|
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
|
|
African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
|
Southern States -- In literature.
|
|
Southern States. |
|
African Americans in literature.
|
|
African Americans in literature. |
|
Race in literature.
|
|
Race in literature. |
|
Noirs américains dans la littérature. |
|
Race dans la littérature. |
|
États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature. |
| ISBN |
0820324337 alkaline paper |
|
9780820324333 alkaline paper |
|
