A History of the African American Novel

ISBN-13: 9781107061729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 498 str.

Valerie Babb

Opis

A History of the African American Novel offers an updated overview of the development of the novel and its major genres.

Recenzje

'A History of the African American Novel is a highly readable and valuable point of reference. Each periodized chapter, alongside Babb's detailed notes and a lengthy Appendix of African American writers, gives a strong sense of canonical and less familiar black American novels in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. The genre-based chapters trace the development of traditional and popular forms such as detective, speculative, pulp, graphic, and diasporic novels, as well as filmic adaptations.' Bella Adams, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

Part I. History: Introduction; 1. Out of many one: the beginnings of a novelistic tradition, 1850s–1900s; 2. Publish or perish: African American novels, 1900s–1920s; 3. Aesthetics of race and culture: African American novels, 1920s–1940s; 4. Home of the brave: African American novels, 1940s–1960s; 5. Black arts and beyond: African American novels, 1960s–1970s; 6. From margin to center: African American novels, 1970s–1990s; 7. 'Bohemian cult-nats': African American novels, 1990s and beyond; Part II. Significant Genres of the African American Novel: Introduction; 8. The neo-slave narrative; 9. The detective novel; 10. The speculative novel; 11. African American pulp; 12. The black graphic novel; 13. African American novels from page to screen; 14. Novels of the diaspora.