Deans and Truants : : Race and Realism in African American Literature /

Deans and Truants : : Race and Realism in African American Literature / / Gene Andrew Jarrett.

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For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Jarrett, Gene Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2007
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 7 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Problem of African American Literature
  • Chapter 1. "Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed"
  • Chapter 2. "We Must Write Like the White Men"
  • Chapter 3. "The Conventional Blindness of the Caucasian Eye"
  • Chapter 4. "The Impress of Nationality Rather than Race"
  • Chapter 5. ''A Negro Peoples' Movement in Writing"
  • Chapter 6. "The Race Problem Was Not a Theme for Me"
  • Chapter 7. ''A-World-in-Which-Race-Does-Not-Matter"
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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