Literary ambition and the African American novel /

Literary ambition and the African American novel /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nowlin, Michael Everett, 1962- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. Authorship -- Social aspects -- United States. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American fiction -- African American authors. Authorship -- Social aspects. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11989341

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9781108482073 1108482074 9781108699457
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book shows how African American literature emerged as a world-recognized literature: less as the product of a seamless tradition of writers signifying upon their ancestors than the product of three generations of ambitious, competitive individuals aiming to be the first great African American writer. It charts a canon of fictional landmarks, beginning with The House Behind the Cedars and culminating in the National Book Award-winning Invisible Man, and tells the compelling stories of the careers of key African writers, including Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. These writers worked within the white-dominated, commercial, Eurocentric literary field to put African American literature on the world literary map, while struggling to transcend the cultural expectations attached to their position as "Negro authors." Literary Ambition and the African American Novel tells as much about the novels that these writers could not publish as it does about their major achievements"--
Other form:	Online version: Nowlin, Michael, 1962- Literary ambition and the African American novel New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108699457

Regenstein, Bookstacks

Loading map link

Holdings details from Regenstein, Bookstacks
Call Number:	PS374.N4 N69 2019
c.1	Available Loan period: standard loan Scan and Deliver Request for Pickup Need help? - Ask a Librarian