TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooke, Michael G.
TI  - Afro-American literature in the twentieth century: the achievement of intimacy 
SN  - 0300032188
AV  - PS153.N5 C67 1984
U1  - 810/.9/896073 19
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Amerikaans
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - Negers
KW  - Litt erature am ericaine
KW  - Auteurs noirs am ericains
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 20e si ecle
KW  - Noirs am ericains dans la litt erature
KW  - fast
KW  - Literatur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - gtt
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - English literature
KW  - American negro writers, 1900-1981 - Critical studies
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index; Introduction : Building on "signifying" and the blues -- Self-veiling : James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, and Nella Larsen -- Solitude : the beginnings of self-realization in Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison -- Kinship : the power of association in Michael Harper and Eldridge Cleaver -- Intimacy : the interpenetration of the one and the all in Robert Hayden and Alice Walker -- Tragic and ironic denials of intimacy : Jean Toomer, James Baldwin, and Ishmael Reed -- After intimacy : the search for new meaning in recent black fiction
N2  - ""For the serious student of black writers and black writing, this book is provocative and challenging, not to mention original. If one's appetite for black literature is large, this book will be a continuous source of nourishment.""--Charlayne Hunter-Gault
ER  -