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My father's shadow : intergenerational conflict in African American men's autobiography / David L. Dudley.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dudley, David L., Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
- Intergenerational relations in literature.
- Autobiography--African American authors.
- Autobiography.
- African American men in literature.
- Fathers and sons in literature.
- Autobiography--Male authors.
- African American men--Biography--History and criticism.
- African American men.
- African American men--Intellectual life.
- African Americans in literature.
- Intergenerational relations in literature--African American authors.
- Autobiography--History and criticism--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p. )
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David L. Dudley explores African American men's autobiographies, starting with Frederick Douglas and moving on through Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and Malcolm X.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 : The Head of a Line: Frederick Douglass
- 2: Assuming the Mantle: Booker T. Washington
- 3: The Struggle for Paternal Authority: Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
- 4: Runaway Son: Richard Wright
- 5: Repeated Patterns: James Baldwin and Eldridge Cleaver
- 6: Out from the Shadow: Malcolm X
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-213) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512809381
- 1512809381
- 9780585126708
- 0585126704
- OCLC:
- 979837097
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