Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 289 pages; 20 cm

Series statement

1. Yale publications in American studies ; 3

Uniform title

1. Yale publications in American studies ; 3.

Subject

1. Ellison, Ralph, (1914-1994)
2. Baldwin, James, (1924-1987)
3. Toomer, Jean, (1894-1967)
4. Wright, Richard, (1908-1960)
5. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
6. American fiction > History and criticism
7. African Americans
8. American fiction > African American authors
9. American literature > History and criticism
10. African American
11. American literature
12. American fiction > African American authors
13. African Americans
14. American fiction
15. American literature > African American authors
16. American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
17. African Americans > Intellectual life
18. American fiction > African influences
19. African Americans in literature
20. Noirs américains > Dans la littérature
21. Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique
22. Noirs Americains > dans la littérature

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. I. The novel of the rising middle class: 1890-1920. 1. Origins of the early novel. Social antecedents ; Literary ancestors ; 2. Novels of the talented tenth. Abolitionist novels ; Sutton Griggs ; Charles Chesnutt ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; W. E. B. Duios ; James Weldon Johnson ; The end of an era -- II. The discovery of the folk : 1920-1930. 3. The background of the Negro renaissance. The great migration Rise of an intelligentsia ; The new negro movement ; Cultural collaboration in the jazz age ; The essence of negro renaissance ; 4. The Harlem school. Claude McKay ; Langston Hughes ; Countee Cullen ; Jean Toomer ; The satirists ; 5. The rear guard. Walter White and W. E. B. DuBois ; Jessie Fauset ; Nella Larsen ; The morning after -- III. The search for a tradition: 1930-1940. 6. The Great Depression. The Federal Writer's Project; Role of the Communist Party ; The little magazines ; The search for a tradition ; 7. Aspects of the racial past. Arna Bontemps ; George Wylie Henderson and Zora Neale Hurston ; William Attaway ; Richard Wright -- The revolt against protest: 1940-1952. 8. Postwar expansion. The Wright School The war years The revolt against protest ; 9. The contemporary negro novel. Protest novels ; Raceless novels ; Novels of negro life and culture -- Postscript. 10. James Baldwin. Go tell it on the mountain ; Giovanni's room ; Another country -- Epilogue. 11. Freedom for the negro novelist. The "art-as-weapon" fallacy ; The "cultural ghetto" fallacy ; Toward an autonomous negro art.

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 255-270.