Author

Publication

1986 - University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee

Language

English

Word Count

45,000 words, Guess

Page Count

180 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780870495083
  • Open LibraryOL2713991M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.009/896
  • LCCPS153.N5 C35 1986
  • LCCPS153.N5C35 1986

Description

Celebrations of escape and revolt: William Wells Brown's Clotel and Arna Bontemps's Black thunder -- Female paradigms in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- A necessary ambivalence: Sutton Grigg's Imperium in imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition -- Visions of transcendence in W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Retreat into the self: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- The passage back: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer and Alex Haley's Roots -- Ancestral quests in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident.

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