Neo-African literature, a history of black writing. / by Janheinz Jahn ; Translated from the German by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jahn, Janheinz.

Contributor:

Coburn, Oliver, translator.

Lehrburger, Ursula, translator.

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

Series:

Evergreen book ; E-523.

An Evergreen book ; E-523

Standardized Title:

Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Black authors.

Black people in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

301 pages, 3 unnumbered pages. ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, Grove Press, Inc., 1969.

Contents:

Part One: Introductory. Definition; Early Writers of African Descent

Part Two: The African Scene. African Oral Literature; Afro-Arabic Literature; 'Apprentice' and 'Protest' Literature; The Tragedy of Southern Bantu Literature

Part Three: The American Scene. Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Literature; 'Minstrelsy' and Voodoo; The Negro Spiritual; Blues and Calypso; The 'Negro Renaissance'; The 'Golden Years'; The Depression; 'Indigenism' and 'Negrism'

Part Four: The New Problems. The Negritude School; Conclusion: Towards Modern African Literature.

Notes:

"First Evergreen Edition, 1969."

Translation of Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur copyright © 1966 by Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Dusseldorf-Koln.

"This translation copyright © 1968 by Faber and Faber Ltd. London and Grove Press, Inc., New York."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is "Third Printing".

OCLC:

2941