Mythic Black fiction : the transformation of history
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- ISBN: 0870495089 (alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 9780870495083 (alk. paper)
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xviii, 180 p. ; 23 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1986.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Revision of thesis (doctoral), 1977. Includes index. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. [171]-176. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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