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A history of the African American novel / Valerie Babb.

By: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107061729 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.009/896073 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.N4 B24 2017
Contents:
Part I. History: Introduction; 1. Out of many one: the beginnings of a novelistic tradition, 1850s-1900s; 2. Publish or perish: African American novels, 1900s-1920s; 3. Aesthetics of race and culture: African American novels, 1920s-1940s; 4. Home of the brave: African American novels, 1940s-1960s; 5. Black arts and beyond: African American novels, 1960s-1970s; 6. From margin to center: African American novels, 1970s-1990s; 7. 'Bohemian cult-nats': African American novels, 1990s and beyond; Part II. Significant Genres of the African American Novel: Introduction; 8. The neo-slave narrative; 9. The detective novel; 10. The speculative novel; 11. African American pulp; 12. The black graphic novel; 13. African American novels from page to screen; 14. Novels of the diaspora.
List(s) this item appears in: AAHM - African American History Month

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. History: Introduction; 1. Out of many one: the beginnings of a novelistic tradition, 1850s-1900s; 2. Publish or perish: African American novels, 1900s-1920s; 3. Aesthetics of race and culture: African American novels, 1920s-1940s; 4. Home of the brave: African American novels, 1940s-1960s; 5. Black arts and beyond: African American novels, 1960s-1970s; 6. From margin to center: African American novels, 1970s-1990s; 7. 'Bohemian cult-nats': African American novels, 1990s and beyond; Part II. Significant Genres of the African American Novel: Introduction; 8. The neo-slave narrative; 9. The detective novel; 10. The speculative novel; 11. African American pulp; 12. The black graphic novel; 13. African American novels from page to screen; 14. Novels of the diaspora.

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