The Afro-American novel since 1960
By: edited by Peter Bruck, Wolfgang Karrer.
Contributors: Bruck, Peter.; Karrer, Wolfgang, 1941-
Publisher: Grüner
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Checklist of Afro-American novels, 1945-1980": p. 307-325.
Table of contents: title: A feminine search for selfhood : Paule Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones (1959) / Deborah Schneider; title: Multiperspective and the hazards of integration : John A. Williams' Night song (1961) / Wolfgang Karrer; title: Romance as epistomological design : William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer (1962) / Peter Bruck; title: William Demby's The catacombs (1965) / Klaus P. Hansen; title: Dark ghetto fantasy and the Great Society : Charles Wright's The wig (1966) / Ebergard Kreutzer; title: Postmodernist rhetoric in Ishmael Reed's Yellow back radio broke down (1969) / Michel Fabre; title: Collective experiences and individual responsibility : Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) / Klaus Ensslen; title: Journey to freedom : Ernest Gaines' The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) / Albert Wertheim; title: The novel as blues : Albert Murray's Train whistle guitar (1974) / Wolfgang Karrer; title: Search for "Soul space" : a study of Al Young's Who is Angela? (1975) / Elizabeth Schultz; title: Returning to one's roots : the motif of searching and flying in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977) / Peter Bruck.