African American literature beyond race : an alternative reader / / edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.008/0896073
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - African American authors; African Americans
• Persona (resp. second.): JarrettGene Andrew <1975->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-435) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I Postbellum Period, 1865-1900""; ""1 FRANK J. WEBB""; ""TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB: AN ORIGINAL TALE (1870)""; ""2 FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER""; ""SOWING AND REAPING (1876â€?77)""; ""Chapter 1 [Setting Out in Life]""; ""Chapter 2 The Decision""; ""Chapter 4 [Every Man Has His Price]""; ""Chapter 6 [The Verge of a Precipice]""; ""Chapter 7 [The Engagement]""; ""Chapter 8 [Sowing and Reaping]""; ""Chapter 9 [Belle Gordon]""; ""Chapter 10 [A Drunkardâ€?s Wife]"" ; ""3 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR""""THE UNCALLED (1898)""; ""Chapter 10 [The Seminary]""; ""Chapter 11 [The Sermon]""; ""Chapter 12 [The Ordination]""; ""PART II: Between the World Wars, 1919-1940""; ""4 NELLA LARSEN""; ""THE WRONG MAN (1926)""; ""FREEDOM (1926)""; ""5 JEAN TOOMER""; ""YORK BEACH (1928)""; ""Chapter 1 [The Perfect Place]""; ""Chapter 2 [Individuality]""; ""6 Wallace Thurman""; ""THE INTERNE (1932)""; ""Chapter 2 [Flanagan Hall]""; ""Chapter 3 [Touring the Hospital]""; ""Chapter 9 [The Fire]""; ""Chapter 12 [Carlâ€?s Problems]""; ""PART III: After World War II, 1945-1960"" ; ""7 FRANK YERBY""""THE FOXES OF HARROW (1946)""; ""Chapter 1 [New Orleans]""; ""8 ANN PETRY""; ""COUNTRY PLACE (1947)""; ""Chapter 1 [Lennox, Connecticut]""; ""Chapter 7 [A Discovery]""; ""Chapter 8 [Mearns Gramby]""; ""Chapter 25 [The Will]""; ""9 ZORA NEALE HURSTON""; ""SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE (1948)""; ""Chapter 1 [The Secret Life of Arvay]""; ""10 Chester B. Himes""; ""YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY (1952)""; ""Book 2: Flood of Tears Chapter 9 [Memories]""; ""Book 3: Shall Become the Same at Last Chapter 1 [A Riot]""; ""11 RICHARD WRIGHT""; ""SAVAGE HOLIDAY (1954): Part One: Anxiety"" ; ""12 JAMES BALDWIN""""GIOVANNIâ€?S ROOM (1956): Chapter 1 [The Flight]""; ""PART IV: Contemporary Period after 1965""; ""13 SAMUEL R. DELANY""; ""TIME CONSIDERED AS A HELIX OF SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (1968)""; ""14 TONI MORRISON""; ""RECITATIF (1983)""; ""15 OCTAVIA E. BUTLER""; ""BLOODCHILD (1984)""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race have long been invisible-unpublished, out of print, absent from libraries, rarely discussed among scholars, and omitted from anthologies. However, some of our most celebrated African American authors-from Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison-have resisted this canonical rule, even at the cost of critical d
• Titolo autorizzato: African American literature beyond race
• ISBN: 0-8147-4342-0; 0-8147-4375-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814829603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II