Afro-American literature in the twentieth century : the achievement of intimacy / Michael G. Cooke.

By:

Cooke, Michael G

Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1984.Description: xiii, 241 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0300032188
9780300032185
0300036248
9780300036244

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

DDC classification:

810/.9/896073 19

LOC classification:

PS153.N5 C67 1984

Other classification:

HU 1728
810.9896073

Contents:

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.

Summary: ""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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.

""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.

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