Title: Beetlecreek
First published: 1950
Description: First published in 1950, Beetlecreek stands as a moving condemnation of provincialism and fundamentalism. Both a critique of racial hypocrisy and a new direction for the African American novel, it occupies fresh territory that is neither the ghetto realism of Richard Wright nor the ironic modernism of Ralph Ellison.
Subjects: African American teenage boys, City and town life, Fiction, Male friendship, Race relations, White Men, Fiction, general, West virginia, fiction, Friendship
Places: West Virginia