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The ethics of swagger : prizewinning African American novels, 1977-1993 / Michael DeRell Hill.
LIBRA PS374.N4 H55 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Michael D., 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bradley, David, 1950---Criticism and interpretation.
- Bradley, David.
- Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gaines, Ernest J.
- Johnson, Charles, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.
- Johnson, Charles.
- Johnson, Charles, 1948-.
- Wideman, John Edgar.
- Walker, Alice, 1944-.
- Naylor, Gloria.
- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.
- Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019.
- Bradley, David, 1950-.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.
- Morrison, Toni.
- Naylor, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.
- Walker, Alice.
- Wideman, John Edgar--Criticism and interpretation.
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- After World War II and well beyond the Black Arts Movement, African American novelists straggled with white literary expectations imposed upon them. Aesthetics as varied as New Criticism and Deconstruction fueled these struggles, and black writers-facing such problems-experienced an ethical crisis. Analyzing prizewinning, creative fellowship, and artistic style, this book considers what factors ended that crisis. The Ethics of Swagger explores how novelists who won major prizes between 1977 and 1993 helped move authors of black fiction through insecurity toward autonomy. Identifying these prizewinners-David Bradley, Ernest Gaines, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, and John Edgar Wideman-as a literary class, this book focuses on how they achieved imaginative freedom, recovered black literary traditions, and advanced the academic study of African American writing. The post-Civil Rights era produced the most accomplished group of novelists in black literary history. As these authors worked in an integrating society, they subjected white narrative techniques to the golden mean of black cultural mores. This exposure compelled the mainstream to acknowledge fresh talent and prodded American society to honor its democratic convictions. Shaping national dialogues about merit, award-winning novelists from 1977 to 1993, the Black Archivists, used swagger to alter the options for black art and citizenship. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Beloved and black prizewinning
- Authorized mentors : to Africa and back in The color purple and Middle passage
- A lesson before dying as style guide
- One to write on : communion without consensus in The women of Brewster Place and Jazz
- Hunting inheritance in Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville incident
- Measured achievement : Sent for you yesterday's and Philadelphia fire's failed artists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814212141
- 081421214X
- 9780814293157
- 0814293158
- OCLC:
- 816029654
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