Afro-American literature in the twentieth century : [electronic resource] the achievement of intimacy / Michael G. Cooke.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1984.Description: xiii, 241 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0300032188 (alk. paper)
- 9780300032185 (alk. paper)
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- African Americans in literature
- Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- English literature American negro writers, 1900-1981 - Critical studies
- Letterkunde
- Amerikaans
- Negers
- Geschichte 1899-1981
- Geschichte 1900-1983
- Geschichte 1900-
- Geschichte 1900-1980
- Literatur
- USA
- Schwarze
- 810/.9/896073 19
- PS153.N5 C67 1984
Bibliography: p. 227-234.
Includes index.
Introduction : Building on "signifying" and the blues -- Self-veiling : James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, and Nella Larsen -- Solitude : the beginnings of self-realization in Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison -- Kinship : the power of association in Michael Harper and Eldridge Cleaver -- Intimacy : the interpenetration of the one and the all in Robert Hayden and Alice Walker -- Tragic and ironic denials of intimacy : Jean Toomer, James Baldwin, and Ishmael Reed -- After intimacy : the search for new meaning in recent black fiction.
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