Mythic Black fiction
Subtitle: the transformation of history
By: Jane Campbell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- United States.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; African Americans in literature.; Romanticism -- United States.; Slavery in literature.; Myth in literature.
Description: Celebrations of escape and revolt: William Wells Brown's Clotel and Arna Bontemps's Black thunder -- Female paradigms in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- A necessary ambivalence: Sutton Grigg's Imperium in imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition -- Visions of transcendence in W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Retreat into the self: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- The passage back: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer and Alex Haley's Roots -- Ancestral quests in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [171]-176.
Revision of thesis (doctoral), 1977.
Includes index.