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The black novelist / edited by Robert Hemenway ...
LIBRA - Rare PS374.N4 H4 1970 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hemenway, Robert, 1921- compiler.
- Series:
- Charles E. Merrill literary texts.
- Charles E. Merrill literary texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus, Ohio : Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1970.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1: Critical judgments.
- Sutton E. Griggs: novelist of the new Negro / Hugh Gloster
- Social realism in Charles W. Chesnutt / Russell Ames
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: the rejected symbol / Darwin T. Turner
- The novels of Jessie Fauset / William Stanley Braithwaite
- Zora Neale Hurston / Robert Bone
- Frank Yerby as debunker / Darwin T. Turner
- The dark and haunted tower of Richard Wright / Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
- Politics of Ellison's Booker: Invisible man as symbolic history / Richard Kostelanetz
- Novels of James Baldwin / Robert Bone
- The development of the Black revolutionary artist / James T. Stewart
- Pt. 2: The Black novelist speaks.
- Two novels / W. E. B. DuBois
- The Negro renaissance: Jean Toomer and the Harlem writers of the 1920's / Arna Bontemps
- How "Bigger" was born / Richard Wright
- The Negro writer - shadow and substance / J. Saunders Redding
- The Negro writer - pitfalls and compensations / William Gardner Smith
- Art of fiction: an interview / Ralph Ellison
- Everybody's protest novel / James Baldwin
- The literary ghetto / John A. Williams
- Notes on a native son / Eldridge Cleaver.
- Notes:
- "Selected bibliography": pages 243-255.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has dustjacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is paperbound edition.
- Banks Collection copy has stamps "14 Day" and "Oct 30 1975".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hemenway, Robert, 1921- Black novelist.
- ISBN:
- 0675094976
- 9780675094979
- 0675094984
- 9780675094986
- OCLC:
- 94434
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