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Native sons : a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors / Edward Margolies.
LIBRA - Rare PS553.N5 M26 1969 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margolies, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wright, Richard.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Ellison, Ralph.
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
- Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984--Criticism and interpretation.
- Himes, Chester B.
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
- Baldwin, James.
- Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation.
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
- X, Malcolm.
- Barajam Amiri, 1934-2014--Criticism and interpretation.
- Barajam Amiri.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- American literature--African influences.
- African Americans in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3-209 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Paperback Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company, 1969.
- Contents:
- Perspectives
- The first forty years: 1900-1940
- Migration: William Attaway and Blood on the forge
- Richard Wright: Native son and three kinds of revolution
- Race and sex; the novels of Chester Himes
- The Negro church; James Baldwin and the Christian vision
- History as blues: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
- The new nationalism: Malcolm X
- The expatriate as novelist: William Demby
- Prospects: LeRoi Jones?
- Notes:
- "W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Waddell Chesnutt; James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, William Attaway, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, William Demby, LeRoi Jones."
- "Book design by Joe Crossen."
- On spine: LP19
- Bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has half-title and title pages partly disbound.
- OCLC:
- 70410307
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