Title How their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors : Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature.

Publication Info.

Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (268 pages)
	text file
Summary	The book examines fictional responses of African American expatriate writers to Europe in the 1960s. It analyzes the change in the African American perception of Europe and seeks to reveal how African American writers of the 1960s responded in imaginative ways to the European scene.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	From enchantment to criticism of colonial France: James Baldwin's "This morning, this evening, so soon" and William Gardner Smith's The stone face -- Escaping racial determinism: Frank Yerby's Parisian romance Speak now -- From skepticism to new humanisms or when Europe and Africa converse in Rome: William Demby's The catacombs -- Resisting the European seductress in Copenhagen: Cecil Brown's The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass nigger -- The quality of hurt: European exile and John A Williams's The man who cried I am -- When the United States becomes a point of unavoidable return.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	African American authors -- Homes and haunts -- Europe.
	African American authors.
	Europe.
	African Americans -- Europe -- History.
	African Americans.
	History.
	Expatriation in literature.
	Expatriation in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Europe -- In literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: 9780773437487
ISBN	9780773421714
	0773421718
	9780773437487
	0773437487

Title How their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors : Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature.

Item Status

Library Links

Search Tools