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Author Cooke, Michael G.

Title Afro-American literature in the twentieth century : the achievement of intimacy / Michael G. Cooke.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1984]
©1984

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  810.9 COOKE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.9 COOKE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.98 C775    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  810.9 C77A    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9896 C773A    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 227-234.
Note Includes index.
Contents Introduction : Building on "signifying" and the blues -- Self-veiling : James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, and Nella Larsen -- Solitude : the beginnings of self-realization in Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison -- Kinship : the power of association in Michael Harper and Eldridge Cleaver -- Intimacy : the interpenetration of the one and the all in Robert Hayden and Alice Walker -- Tragic and ironic denials of intimacy : Jean Toomer, James Baldwin, and Ishmael Reed -- After intimacy : the search for new meaning in recent black fiction.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
ISBN 0300032188 alkaline paper
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