South of tradition : essays on African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Trudier.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans in literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 230 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2002]

Contents:

Humor in Alice Walker's The color purple

Slanting the truth: homosexuality, manhood, and race in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room

New invisible man: revisiting a nightmare in the 1990s (Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man)

Zapping the editor, or, how to tell censors to kiss off without really trying: Zora Neale Hurston's fights with authority figures in Dust tracks on a road

Architecture as destiny? Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street

Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul

The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays

Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison

Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer

Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth"

Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820324337

OCLC:

49727644