Mythic Black fiction
the transformation of history
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1986 - University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee
Language
English
Word Count
45,000 words, Guess
Page Count
180 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemythicblackficti0000camp
- ISBN-100870495089
- ISBN-139780870495083
- Library of Congress Control Number86006909
- OCLC Control Number13334301
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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