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Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Augusta Rohrbach
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Description for Truth Stranger Than Fiction
hardcover. Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, this book shows how African-American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. Num Pages: 169 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, Truth Stranger than Fiction shows how African American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. More specifically, Truth Stranger than Fiction traces the influences of generic conventions popularized in slave narratives - such as the use of authenticating details, as well as dialect, and a frank treatment of the human body - in later realist writings. As it unfolds, Truth Stranger than Fiction poses and explores a set of ... Read more
Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, Truth Stranger than Fiction shows how African American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. More specifically, Truth Stranger than Fiction traces the influences of generic conventions popularized in slave narratives - such as the use of authenticating details, as well as dialect, and a frank treatment of the human body - in later realist writings. As it unfolds, Truth Stranger than Fiction poses and explores a set of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
169
Condition
New
Number of Pages
153
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312239213
SKU
V9780312239213
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About Augusta Rohrbach
AUGUSTA ROHRBACH is currently on a joint appointment at the Bunting Fellowship Program and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University after being Bunting Fellow the previous year. In addition she has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Houghton Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and Oberlin College in support of this work. She taught at Oberlin College for ... Read more
Reviews for Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Truth Stranger than Fiction is the first book to explore the direct relationship between slave narratives and realism in American fiction. It is a ground-breaking study, essential to the understanding of the history of American fictional realism, and should be read by all students and scholars of American literature. - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University