Down home : a history of Afro-American short fiction from its beginnings to the end of the Harlem Renaissance / by Robert Bone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bone, Robert, 1924-2007.

Contributor:

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

Series:

New perspectives on Black America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--History and criticism.

Short stories, American.

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

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

Pastoral fiction, American--History and criticism.

Pastoral fiction, American.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

African Americans in literature.

Country life in literature.

Folklore in literature.

Harlem Renaissance.

Intellectual life.

Literature.

New York (State)--New York--Harlem.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 328 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975.

Contents:

Part I. The masks of slavery: 1885-1920. 1. Literary Forebears. The black abolitionist ; The local-color school; The plantation school. 2. The oral tradition. The Afro-American folktale Mask and countermask; The Brer Rabbit tales. 3. Paul Dunbar. Life and work; The age of Washington; Washington and Dunbar; Dunbar and the minstrel mask; Representative stories. 4. Charles Chesnutt. Life and work; The conjure woman; The wife of his youth; "Baxter's Procrustes"

Part II. The Masks of Arcady: 1920-1935. 5. The Harlem Renaissance: a reappraisal. Portrait of a generation; The primacy of literary form; The folk experience; Impulse toward the picaresque; From picaresque to pastoral; The myth of primitivism; The possibilities of pastoral. 6. Three versions of pastoral. Zora Hurston; Rudolph Fisher; Claude McKay. 7. Eric Walrond. Life and work; Apprentice fiction; Lafcadio Hearn and Pierre Loti; Tropic death. 7. Jean Toomer. Life and work; Waldo Frank and his Milieu; Our America and city block; Three stories from Cane; The Gurdjieff phase; The angelic imagination. 9. Langston Hughes. Life and work; The making of a satirist; The ways of white folks; From satire to celebration; Laughing to keep from crying. 10. Epilogue: Arna Bontemps. Life and work California memoirs; Alabama tales; From Harlem to Chicago renaissance.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Sam Salant."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is paperback edition with "A Capricorn Giant 436" printed on spine and back cover. "Capricorn Books" printed on title-page.

Other Format:

Online version: Bone, Robert. Down home.

ISBN:

0399116028

9780399116025

OCLC:

1502554