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245			_aThe Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel / _cedited by Maryemma Graham
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bCambridge University Press, _c©2004
300			_axvii, 315p.
440			_aCambridge Companions to Literature
505			_aNotes on contributors Chronology Introduction Maryemma Graham Part I. The Long Journey: The African American Novel and History: 1. Freeing the voice, creating the self: the novel and slavery Chris Mulvey 2. Reconstructing the race: the novel after slavery M. Guilia Fabi 3. The novel of the New Negro Renaissance George Hutchinson 4. Caribbean migration, ex-isles, and the New World novel Giselle Liza Anatol Part II. Search for a Form: The New American Novel: 5. The neo slave narrative Ashraf H. A. Rushdy 6. Coming of age in the African American novel Claudine Raynaud 7. The blues novel Steven Tracy 8. From modernism to post modernism: black culture at the crossroads Fritz Gysin 9. The African American novel and popular culture Susanne Dietzel Part III: African American Voices: From Margin to Center: 10. Everybody's protest novel: the era of Richard Wright Jerry W. Ward, Jr. 11. Finding common ground: Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin Herman Beavers 12. American neo-hoodooism: the novels of Ishmael Reed Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure 13. Spaces for readers: the novels of Toni Morrison Marilyn Mobley Mckenzie 14. African American womanism: from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker Lovalerie King 15. Vernacular modernism in the novels of John Edgar Wideman and Leon Forrest Keith Byerman.
520			_aCombining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity.
650			_aAmerican Fiction _xAfrican - Amrican writer _xHistory and Criticism
700			_aGraham, Maryemma [Ed.]
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