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How their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors [electronic resource] : Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luczak, Ewa Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American authors--Homes and haunts--Europe.
- African Americans--Europe--History.
- African Americans in literature.
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- Europe--In literature.
- Expatriation in literature.
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism--Europe.
- American fiction.
- African American authors.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- African American authors--Homes and haunts--Europe.
- African Americans--Europe--History.
- African Americans in literature.
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- Europe--In literature.
- Expatriation in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book examines fictional responses of African American expatriate writers to Europe in the 1960s. It analyzes the change in the African American perception of Europe and seeks to reveal how African American writers of the 1960s responded in imaginative ways to the European scene.
- Contents:
- HOW THEIR LIVING OUTSIDE AMERICA AFFECTED FIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS: Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - From Enchantment to Criticism of Colonial France: James Baldwin's ""This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"" and William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face; Chapter 2 - Escaping Racial Determinism: Frank Yerby's Parisian Romance Speak Now; Chapter 3 - From Skepticism to New Humanisms or When Europe and Africa Converse in Rome: William Demby's The Catacombs
- Chapter 4 - Resisting the European Seductress in Copenhagen: Cecil Brown's The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass NiggerChapter 5 - The Quality of Hurt: European Exile and John A. Williams's The Man Who Cried I Am; Chapter 6 - When the United States Becomes a Point of Unavoidable Return; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2171-8
- OCLC:
- 823380624
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