Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bone, Robert, 1924-2007
2. Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.
3. Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Description

1. 142, 209 p.; 21 cm.

Series statement

1. Studies in American Negro life

Uniform title

1. Studies in American Negro life.

Subject

1. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
2. African Americans in literature

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Negro poetry and drama: p. 1: The Negro in American poetry: Early American Negro poetry -- Negro folk poetry -- Dunbar and traditional dialect -- Dunbar and the romantic tradition -- Contemporary Negro poetry (1914-1936) -- White poetry of Negro life before 1914 -- Contemporary White poets on Negro life -- p. II: The Negro in American drama: Early drama of Negro life -- Negro folk drama -- Realistic and problem drama -- The Negro in American fiction: Early appearances -- The plantation tradition: pro-slavery fiction -- Anti-slavery fiction -- Reconstruction: the not so glorious South -- Counter-propaganda: beginning realism -- Realism and the folk -- The urban scene -- Southern realism -- New roads -- Historical fiction.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.

Processing action (note)

1. Committed to retain