Title: Mythic Black fiction
Description: Celebrations of escape and revolt: William Wells Brown's Clotel and Arna Bontemps's Black thunder -- Female paradigms in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- A necessary ambivalence: Sutton Grigg's Imperium in imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition -- Visions of transcendence in W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Retreat into the self: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- The passage back: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer and Alex Haley's Roots -- Ancestral quests in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident.
Subjects: African American authors, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American Historical fiction, American fiction, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Literature and history, Myth in literature, Romanticism, Slavery in literature, Literatur, Roman, Schwarze, Amerikaans, Letterkunde, Criticism and interpretation, Mythos, Negers, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism
Places: United States