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African American writing : a literary approach / Werner Sollors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sollors, Werner, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- African Americans in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 Olaudah Equiano, an Enlightenment Cosmopolitan in the Age of Slavery 14
- 2 The Philadelphian Novelist Frank Webb Anticipates the Future 38
- 3 The Goopher in Charles W. Chesnutt's Conjure Tales: Superstition, Ethnicity, and Modern Metamorphoses 50
- 4 Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America 66
- 5 African American Intellectuals and Europe between the Two World Wars 88
- 6 W. E. B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany, 1936 106
- 7 Modernization as Adultery: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and American Culture of the 1930s and 1940s 120
- 8 Of Mules and Mares in a Land of Difference; or, Quadrupeds All? 148
- 9 The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois 170
- 10 Owls and Rats in the American Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy's Drama 182
- 11 LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Dutchman 200
- 12 Obligations to Negroes Who Would Be Kin if They Were Not Negro 214.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439913369
- 1439913366
- 9781439913376
- 1439913374
- OCLC:
- 921868672
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