The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
by Maryemma Graham
Publication Date: Apr 15, 2004
List Price: $140.00
Format: Hardcover, 340 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780521815741
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Parent Company: Cambridge University
Hardcover Description:
Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel’s diversity and complexity.
Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel’s diversity and complexity.
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