The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches

The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches / Bernard W. Bell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Bernard W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and folklore > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Folklore.
Folklore in literature.
Honor with Books 2006
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the rhetoric, politics, and poetics of representaton in the contemporary African American novel
  • Roots of the contemporary African American novel
  • Mapping the peaks and valleys of the African American novel (1853-1962)
  • Forms of neorealism : critical and poetic realism (1962-1983)
  • Modernism and postmodernism (1962-1983)
  • Continuity and change in ethnic tropes of identity formation (1983-2001)
  • New black aesthetic : Eurocentric metafiction and African Americentric tropes of transcultural identity and community (1983-2001).
  • Contemporary African American paraliterature : science/speculative fiction, gay/lesbian, and detective/mystery novels and romances (1983-2001).

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