Leon Forrest
Subtitle: introductions and interpretations
By: edited by John G. Cawelti.
Contributors: Cawelti, John G.
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bowling Green, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Forrest, Leon -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature
Description: Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations combines biography and various methods of critical analysis to interpret the work of this important African-American novelist and essayist, who critics have compared to Joyce, Faulkner, and Tolstoy. Highly praised by Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, Forrest's four novels present a remarkably rich and engaging view of contemporary African-American urban culture and its roots in the southern past.

The book includes a general introduction which surveys Forrest's life and presents an interpretation of the unity of his fiction, as well as individual essays offering different interpretations of Forrest's four major novels, three interviews with the writer, and a detailed chronology and bibliography.
Notes: "Leon Forrest, a bibliography": p. 269-277.
Includes bibliographical references and index.