Afro-American fiction writers after 1955

Summary: Volume 33 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography reflects the trends, hopes, political aspirations, and cultural affirmations of recent black writers. The civil rights movement brought in new voices, experimentation with form, subject, and style, the emergence of writing for and about black children, and an increasing number of black women writers. The volume contains illustrated bio-critical essays on 49 authors. It includes writers for children, Virginia Hamilton, Kustin Hunter, and Sharon Bell Mathis; science fiction writers Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany; experimenters with form, such as Clarence Major; folk speech and culturally saturated novels of Ernest Gaines and Ellease Southerland; interpreters of communal and personal history such as Barbara Chase-Ribound and Ishmael Reed. Other novelists include: Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. ISBN 0-8103-1711-7 : $85.00 (For use only in the library).