Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915 - Softcover

Jr, Dickson D. Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807118060 ISBN 13: 9780807118061

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 1992

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Book by Bruce Dickson D

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The first full-scale examination of African-American writing produced between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of World War I, this book breaks new ground in social and literary history.--Choice

As an informed description of the published literature by African Americans between 1877 and 1915, Black American Writing from the Nadir is a significant contribution to the scholarship of American lives and letters.--American Literature

Bruce's book is a wonderfully detailed study. . . . The volume is important for its treatment of many of the lesser-known writers from this period as well as for its shedding of new interpretations on some of the works of better-known writers.--Journal of Southern History

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In this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work--from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time, these writers, most of whom were members of a small but growing black professional class, displayed a concern for middle-class aspirations and values. Bruce underscores the significance of discerning the tensions between these opposing forces in studying the literature of the time.

Bruce's attention to the body of work produced by minor writers, most of whom have remained obscure to all but a few literary scholars and historians, adds an important dimension to our understanding of African-American history and literature. His discussion of such better-known writers as Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois places them in a fuller literary context, defining more clearly their significance as individuals.

Black American Writing from the Nadir is an insightful, well-focused work that will benefit social and cultural historians as well as students of literature

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• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0807118060
• ISBN 13: 9780807118061
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272