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Author Bell, Bernard W.

Title The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches / Bernard W. Bell.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2004]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.509 B433C    Check Shelf
Description xxviii, 490 pages ; 24 cm
Note Sequel to: The Afro-American novel and its tradition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-461) and index.
Contents Mapping the rhetoric, politics, and poetics of representaton in the contemporary African American novel -- Roots of the contemporary African American novel -- Mapping the peaks and valleys of the African American novel (1853-1962) -- Forms of neorealism : critical and poetic realism (1962-1983) -- Modernism and postmodernism (1962-1983) -- Continuity and change in ethnic tropes of identity formation (1983-2001) -- New black aesthetic : Eurocentric metafiction and African Americentric tropes of transcultural identity and community (1983-2001).
Contemporary African American paraliterature : science/speculative fiction, gay/lesbian, and detective/mystery novels and romances (1983-2001).
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and folklore -- United States.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Folklore.
Folklore in literature.
ISBN 1558494731 paperback alkaline paper
1558494723 library cloth alkaline paper
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