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Author Butler, Robert, 1942-

Title Contemporary African American fiction : the open journey / Robert Butler.

Publication Info. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [1998]
©1998

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.540986 C761C    Check Shelf
Description 163 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
Contents Stunted picaresques : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Richard Wright's Native son -- Ralph Ellison's Invisible man : exploring urban frontiers -- Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland : black women and the picaresque tradition -- Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon : dialectics of time and space -- Charles Johnson's Faith and the good thing : the open journey as metaphysical quest -- Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada : artistic prowess as
endless voyage -- Sherley Anne William's Dessa Rose : clearing space in time -- Twenty-first-century journeys in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
ISBN 0838637876 alkaline paper
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