African American Literature Beyond Race : : An Alternative Reader /

African American Literature Beyond Race : : An Alternative Reader / / ed. by Gene Andrew Jarrett.

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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 As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race have long been invisible-unpublished, out of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Jarrett, Gene Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Jarrett, Gene Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction “Not Necessarily Race Matter”
  • Part I Postbellum Period, 1865–1900
  • Chapter 1 Frank J.Webb (1828–1894)
  • Chapter 2 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1859–1930)
  • Chapter 3 Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
  • Part II Between the World Wars, 1919–1940
  • Chapter 4 Nella Larsen (1893–1964)
  • Chapter 5 Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
  • Chapter 6 Wallace Thurman (1902–1934)
  • Part III After World War II, 1945–1960
  • Chapter 7 Frank Yerby (1915–1991)
  • Chapter 8 Ann Petry (1908–1997)
  • Chapter 9 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
  • Chapter 10 Chester B. Himes (1909–1984)
  • Chapter 11 Richard Wright (1908–1960)
  • Chapter 12 James Baldwin (1924–1987)
  • Part IV Contemporary Period after 1965
  • Chapter 13 Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942)
  • Chapter 14 Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
  • Chapter 15 Octavia E. Butler (b. 1947)
  • Select Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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