02421nam 2200589 450 991079690470332120230807214027.01-60938-336-2(CKB)3710000000375185(EBL)1986698(SSID)ssj0001440127(PQKBManifestationID)11917100(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001440127(PQKBWorkID)11383790(PQKB)11619447(MiAaPQ)EBC1986698(OCoLC)904697294(MdBmJHUP)muse45810(Au-PeEL)EBL1986698(CaPaEBR)ebr11032918(EXLCZ)99371000000037518520150324h20152015 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrDreaming out loud African American novelists at work /edited by Horace A. Porter [and twenty one others]Iowa City :University Press of Iowa,2015.©20151 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60938-335-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the most well-known and respected African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing various aspects of the vocation, craft, and art of writing fiction. Though many of the writers included here are also accomplished poets, essayists, and playwrights, this collection and the essays it contains remains focused on the novel as a genre and an art form.Some essays explore the challenges of being an African American writer in the United States, broadly addressing aesthetic and racial prejudice in American publishing anAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsAfrican Americans in literatureFictionAuthorshipRace awareness in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authors.African Americans in literature.FictionAuthorship.Race awareness in literature.810.8/0896073Porter Horace A.1950-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796904703321Dreaming out loud3735713UNINA