How their living outside America affected five African American authors
Subtitle: toward a theory of expartiate literature
By: Ewa Barbara Luczak ; with a preface by Richard Yarborough.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780773437487
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African American authors -- Homes and haunts -- Europe; African Americans -- Europe -- History; Expatriation in literature; African Americans in literature; Europe -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From enchantment to criticism of colonial France: James Baldwin's "This morning, this evening, so soon" and William Gardner Smith's The stone face; title: Escaping racial determinism: Frank Yerby's Parisian romance Speak now; title: From skepticism to new humanisms or when Europe and Africa converse in Rome: William Demby's The catacombs; title: Resisting the European seductress in Copenhagen: Cecil Brown's The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass nigger; title: The quality of hurt: European exile and John A Williams's The man who cried I am; title: When the United States becomes a point of unavoidable return.