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The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
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Paperback. In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published "The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition", a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. This is a sequel and companion to the earlier work, expanding the coverage to 2001. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 676.
In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. The book won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the College Language Association and was reprinted five times. Now Bell has produced a new volume that serves as a sequel and companion to the earlier work, expanding the coverage to 2001. Bell also refines and extends his interpretive model for reading texts by African American writers, a model based on the vernacular forms of expression of his childhood, the literary theories of ... Read more
In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. The book won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the College Language Association and was reprinted five times. Now Bell has produced a new volume that serves as a sequel and companion to the earlier work, expanding the coverage to 2001. Bell also refines and extends his interpretive model for reading texts by African American writers, a model based on the vernacular forms of expression of his childhood, the literary theories of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494732
SKU
V9781558494732
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Bernard W. Bell is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is editor of W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics (1996), coeditor of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1998), and editor of Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist (2001).
Reviews for The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
A masterful performance, tremendously impressive as a work of literary criticism and theory, historical scholarship, and cultural study....It will become, without question, the standard work in the field, a stimulating source of critical insight and a valuable reference tool - one that everyone who writes about or teaches African American literature will need (and will be eagerl) to own. - ... Read more