Negro poetry and drama, and The Negro in American fiction / Sterling Brown ; with a new preface by Robert Bone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.

Contributor:

Bone, Robert, 1924-2007, writer of preface.

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

Series:

Studies in American Negro life

Studies in American Negro life.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 142 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 209 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Negro in American Fiction

Place of Publication:

New York, Atheneum, 1969.

Contents:

Negro Poetry and Drama. Part I: The Negro in American Poetry. Early American Negro Poetry; Negro Folk Poetry; Dunbar and Traditional Dialect; Dunbar and the Romantic Tradition; Contemporary Negro Poetry (1914-1936); White Poetry of Negro Life before 1914; Contemporary White Poets on Negro Life

Part II: The Negro in American Drama. Early Drama of Negro Life; Negro Folk Drama; Realistic and Problem Drama

The Negro in American Fiction. Early Appearances; The Plantation Tradition: Pro-Slavery Fiction; Antislavery Fiction; Reconstruction: The Glorious South; Reconstruction: The Not So Glorious South; Old Paths; Counter-Propaganda-Beginning Realism; Realism and the Folk; The Urban Scene; Southern Realism; New Roads; Historical Fiction.

Notes:

Atheneum NL 12

First Atheneum Printing January 1969.

Cover design: Chermayoff & Geismar Associates.

Includes bibliographies.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing November 1969".

Contains:

Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989. Negro in American fiction.

OCLC:

143545