Blacks in Eden: African American Novel's First Century - Softcover

Greene, J.Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813916712 ISBN 13: 9780813916712

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 1996

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Book by Greene J Lee

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Greene (English, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) focuses on the Eden trope in African American literature, based largely on biblical stories of the fall of man. He contends that the "formulation of a black discourse in the novel was in large part a direct response to Anglo-Americans' use of the Eden trope as a blueprint for American society." His work provides a discussion of many novels from William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853) to Waters Turpin's The Rootless (1957). It is not, however, a history of the African American novel?and therefore offers few plot summaries of the works. Still, Green provides an illuminating study of several of the novels, including Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, George Schuvler's Black No More, Ann Petry's The Street, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Although readers unfamiliar with academic discourse will find this rough going in spots, Greene's treatise supplies a useful resource for specialists in the field. --Library Journal

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This work examines African-American fiction, discussing how African-American novelists worked with the same mythic materials as their white counterparts, but inverted Anglo-American constructions. Relating the novel to history, it shows how they refuted Anglo-Americans' record of history.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0813916712
• ISBN 13: 9780813916712
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384