Reading contemporary African American literature : Black women's popular fiction, post-civil rights experience, and the African American canon / Beauty Bragg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bragg, Beauty, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison's mythic fiction to Wahida Clark's street lit. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Reconstructionist Canon, Black Feminist Literary Perspectives, and Popular Potential; 2 Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and the Problem of Classification; 3 Girlfriend Fiction; 4 Feminism and the Streets; 5 Hip Hop Tell-All Memoirs and Modes of Self-Construction; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-0714-X

0-7391-8879-8

OCLC:

896824900