Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Black Women's Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon
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ISBN-13:
9780739188781
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2014
Seiten:
140
Autor:
Beauty Bragg
Gewicht:
366 g
Format:
235x157x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison's mythic fiction to Wahida Clark's street lit.
Table of Contents Introduction: Locating an African American Literary Tradition Chapter 1: The Reconstructionist Canon, Black Feminist Literary Perspectives, and Popular Potential Chapter 2: Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and the Problem of Classification Chapter 3: Girlfriend Fiction: Black Women Writers and Readers Negotiating Post-Civil Rights Womanhood Chapter 4: Feminism and the Streets: Urban Fiction and the Quest for Female Independence in the Era of Transactional Sexuality Chapter 5: Hip Hop Tell-All Memoirs and Modes of Self-Construction Conclusion: From Critical Practice to Classroom Practice Bibliography Index About the Author