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Mythic Black fiction : the transformation of history / Jane Campbell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1986.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 180 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0870495089 (alk. paper) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.009/896 19
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 C35 1986
Contents:
Celebrations of escape and revolt: William Wells Brown's Clotel and Arna Bontemps's Black thunder -- Female paradigms in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- A necessary ambivalence: Sutton Grigg's Imperium in imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition -- Visions of transcendence in W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Retreat into the self: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- The passage back: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer and Alex Haley's Roots -- Ancestral quests in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PS153.N5C35 1986 1 Available 33710000654694

Revision of thesis (doctoral), 1977.

Bibliography: p. [171]-176.

Includes index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Celebrations of escape and revolt: William Wells Brown's Clotel and Arna Bontemps's Black thunder -- Female paradigms in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- A necessary ambivalence: Sutton Grigg's Imperium in imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition -- Visions of transcendence in W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Retreat into the self: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- The passage back: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer and Alex Haley's Roots -- Ancestral quests in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident.