The waiting years
Subtitle: essays on American Negro literature
By: Blyden Jackson.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introductory essay.; title: An essay in criticism.; title: Largo for Adonais.; title: The ring and the book.; title: A word about Simple.; title: The case for American Negro literature.; title: The Negro's image of his universe as reflected in his fiction.; title: Richard Wright, Black boy from America's Black belt and urban ghettos.; title: Richard Wright in a moment of truth.; title: A review of J. L. Dillard's Black English.; title: The minstrel mode.; title: Harlem renaissance in the twenties.; title: The ghetto of the Negro novel.; title: Jean Toomer's Cane.; title: A survey course in Negro literature.