According to Bell, his book is a comprehensive sociopsychological, sociocultural interpretive history of the Afro-American novel. It seeks to unearth, identify, describe, and analyze some of the major thematic, stylistic, and structural characteristics of the Afro-American novel from its beginning in 1853 to 1983. This quotation about the book\u27s scope and intention, as well as its title, are indicative of the strengths and weaknesses (mainly the latter) of the entire study. For one thing, it is an understood fact that just as there are African-American experiences, there are also literary traditions. Whereas one study of one tradition (such as Barbara Christian\u27s on black wimmin novelists) would be another much needed work, Bell\u27...
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Upon first opening Black Lightning, the reader is surprised to find a fifteen-page introduction to a...
John R. Cooley\u27s Savages and Naturals is a critical analysis of the ways in which modern Americ...
Archer\u27s book is a non-fictional account of the pain and anguish of one extended family\u27s stru...
Part of the Indiana University series on Blacks in the Diaspora, this book brings together ten essay...
A book review of Donald Wehrs\u27s Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West Afr...
Numerous and diverse agendas have competed for consideration in attempts to establish and set the pa...
The complex and important relationship between African American folklore and African American litera...
The seven carefully documented essays in literary criticism in this excellent short volume are possi...
Written at different times for different purposes and occasions, by African American scholars who ar...
Jane Campbell\u27s timely study -- a revision of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation -- appears as an early ...
This book, whose author is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, is an important con...
Cheryl Wall\u27s edited volume, Changing Our Own Words, is comprised of the proceedings of a confere...
This book is a valuable contribution to African and African American studies in that it brings toget...
Of all the annotated bibliographies of black literature that have crossed this writer\u27s desk duri...
Despite almost four hundred years of racism, sexism and classism, Afro-American women have managed t...
Upon first opening Black Lightning, the reader is surprised to find a fifteen-page introduction to a...
John R. Cooley\u27s Savages and Naturals is a critical analysis of the ways in which modern Americ...
Archer\u27s book is a non-fictional account of the pain and anguish of one extended family\u27s stru...