The essential Black literature guide / Roger M. Valade III.
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TextPublication details: Detroit : Visible Ink Press, c1996.Description: xviii, 446 p. : ill. 23 cmISBN: - 787607347
- Z 1039.B56 .V23 1996
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Abridged version of: The Schomburg Center Guide to black literature from the eighteenth century to the present / Roger M. Valade III.
Published in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.--T.p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-411) and index.
and descriptive details on spirituals, the Underground Railroad, the Harlem Rennaisance and other topics. Clearly defined are such terms as black nationalism, pan-Negro nationalism, the black aesthetic movement and the post-aesthetic movement.www.shelfari.com"
literary styles - from surrealism to modernism to primitivism
masterworks - from "I Know Why the Cages Bird Sings" to "Native Son" to "The Colour Purple"
movements that affected literature - from segregation and apartheid to civil rights
This source aims to provide an increased understanding and appreciation of black literature. This text combines biography, plot synopsis and description of historic and modern movements, and presents information in a simple A-to-Z format. It includes discussion of: authors - from James Baldwin to Toni Morrison to Richard Wright
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