South of tradition : essays on African American literature
Record details
- ISBN: 0820324337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xv, 230 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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? Women and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography : Raymond Andrews's mythical South -- 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. |
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Subject: | American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans in literature. Southern States > In literature. Race in literature. |
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