A Student's Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the PresentPeter Lang, 2003 - 219 páginas A Students' Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present is designed to assist college students (and others) who are relative novices to the study of African American literature. Focusing on the prose tradition (from early autobiographical narratives to contemporary fiction), the author highlights themes, issues, and motifs peculiar to, and recurring in, African American literature, while providing students with more specific information on a number of key texts. Each chapter comes with suggestions for assignments and a selected bibliography for further research. The book also contains an appendix, which contains six student essays, as well as a useful glossary. |
Índice
Autobiographical Narratives 17601901 | 5 |
Fiction before 1865 | 35 |
Fiction 18651911 | 59 |
Direitos de autor | |
5 outras secções não apresentadas
Palavras e frases frequentes
African American literary African American literature Afro-American Alfrado Alice American Dream artists authors autobiographical narratives Autobiography Baldwin become Bellmont black American Black Arts Movement black women Booker Brewster Place Celie chapter characters Chesnutt Christian Clare Clotel color Critical culture depicts Equiano Essays Ex-Coloured father fiction formerly enslaved persons Frado Frederick Douglass freedom narratives gender Harlem Renaissance Harper Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs's Henry Louis Heroic Slave Hopkins Horace Hurston identity Introd Iola Leroy Irene issues Jacobs James Weldon John Johnson Keckley Langston Hughes lesbian living Lorraine married Maud Martha Middle Passage mother mulatto narrator Naylor Negro North novel Oxford pass for white period poetry protagonist published quest race racial Randall reader relationship represented Richard Wright sexual short story Slave Girl slaveholders slavery social South subsequently theme Theresa Toni Toni Morrison Toomer twentieth century Visitation of Spirits Washington William Wind Done Gone woman writing York
Referências a este livro
Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions Ansgar Nünning,Marion Gymnich,Roy Sommer Visualização de excertos - 2006 |