Description |
328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
Contents |
Criticism in the jungle / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The critic and society : Barthes, leftocracy and other mythologies / Wole Soyinka -- Repetition as a figure of black culture / James A. Snead -- Structural analysis of the Afro-American trickster tale / Jay Edwards -- Negritude, structuralism, deconstruction / Sunday O. Anozie -- Strictures on structures : the prospects for a structuralist poetics of African fiction / Anthony Appiah -- I yam what I am : the topos of (un)naming in Afro-American literature / Kimberly W. Benston -- Storytelling in early Afro-American fiction : Frederick Douglass's 'The heroic slave' / Robert B. Stepto -- Untroubled voice : call and response in Cane / Barbara E. Bowen -- Metaphor, metonymy and voice in Their eyes were watching God / Barbara Johnson -- To move without moving : creativity and commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode / Houston A. Baker,Jr. -- 'Taming all that anger down' : rage and silence in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha / Mary Helen Washington -- Eruptions of funk : historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis -- The blackness of blackness : a critique of the sign and the Signifying monkey / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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African fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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African fiction (English) -- Black authors. |
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African fiction (English) |
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Caribbean fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Caribbean fiction (English) |
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Authors, Black. |
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West Indian fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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West Indian fiction (English) |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life.
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Caribbean Area. |
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Intellectual life. |
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West Indies -- Intellectual life.
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West Indies. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Black people -- Intellectual life.
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Black people -- Intellectual life. |
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Black people in literature.
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Black people in literature. |
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Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique. |
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Roman africain (anglais) -- Auteurs noirs -- Histoire et critique. |
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Roman antillais (anglais) -- Auteurs noirs -- Histoire et critique. |
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Littérature -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. |
Indexed Term |
English literature Negro writers, 1900-1983 - Critical studies |
Subject |
Letterkunde. |
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Negers. |
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Engels. |
Added Author |
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
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Anozie, Sunday O. (Sunday Ogbonna), 1942-2001.
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ISBN |
0416372406 paperback $12.95 |
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9780416372403 paperback |
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0416372309 : $25.00 (U.S.) |
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9780416372304 |
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