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Confluences : postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and th...
Bok av John Cullen Gruesser
Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature
Bok av Tarshia L Stanley
The diasporan self : unbreaking the circle in western Black novels
Bok av J. Lee Greene
Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Liter...
Bok av Gene Andrew Jarrett
The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American c...
Bok av Henry Louis Gates
Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise
Bok av Christel N. Temple
Psychoanalysis and Black Novels : Desire and the Protocols of Race
Bok av Claudia Tate
The hammers of creation : folk culture in modern African-American fiction
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New essays on the African American novel : from Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead

Bok av Lovalerie King
This collection contributes to scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?