The Black writer in Africa and the Americas. / Edited and with an introductgion by Lloyd W. Brown.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Brown, Lloyd W. (Lloyd Wellesley), 1938- editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

Conference on Comparative Literature (4th : 1970 : University of Southern California)

Series:

Studies in comparative literature (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 6.

University of Southern California studies in comparative literature, 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Black authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

Literature.

Literature--Black authors.

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

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life--Congresses.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature--Congresses.

African Americans in literature.

Black people--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Black people.

Black people in literature--Congresses.

Black people in literature.

Black people--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

American literature--African American authors.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 229 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1973.

Contents:

Introduction / Lloyd W. Brown

Concepts of the Black Aesthetic in Contemporary Black Literature / Abraham Chapman

Black Literature and the Problem of Evaluation / Nick Aaron Ford

Ghettoization and Black Literature / John F. Bayliss

The Challenge of Black Literature: Notes on Interpretation / James A. Emanuel

The Letters of Richard Wright / Edward Margolies

Some Literary Contacts: African, West Indian, Afro-American / Mercer A. Cook

Dialect in West Indian Literature / Ismith Khan

Some Speculations as to the Absence of Racialistic Vindictiveness in West Indian Literature / Austin C. Clarke

Some Notes on Brazil's Black Theatre / Frederic M. Litto.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume were originally delivered at the University of Southern California's Fourth Annual Conference on Comparative Literature in April 1970."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0912158204

OCLC:

700257