num_pages: 340
description: Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
genres: Nonfiction, History, Literature, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Cambridge University Press