The Contemporary African American Novel
Subtitle: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: February 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781558494732
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American fiction; American English; Literary Criticism; Literature and folklore; American - African American & Black; American - African American; 20th century; African American authors; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: THE Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches is a sociohistorical, sociocultural, and sociopsychological critical history of the contemporary African American novel as a socially symbolic act of cultural politics and narrative discourse.