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A companion to African American literature / Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett.

Contributor(s): Gene Andrew Jarrett [editor]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Blackwell companions to literature and culturePublication details: [Place of publication not identified] Blackwell Publishing Ltd., c2010Description: xiii, 467 pagesISBN: 9781405188623Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE | LITERATURELOC classification: PS 153.N5 .C66 2010

Contents:

Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865 -- Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940 -- Part III: Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940-Present .

Summary: It studies the canons and traditions of African American literature, even as it unsettles their major assumptions and representations. On the other hand, this collection of essays, written by todays preeminent and rising scholars, examiners most of the well known texts, contexts, genres forms, themes, authors and interpretations of the literature authored by the African dispora in America.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	LRC - Annex	National University - Manila	General Education	General Circulation	GC PS 153.N5 .C66 2010 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000009503

Includes bibliographical references and index .

It studies the canons and traditions of African American literature, even as it unsettles their major assumptions and representations. On the other hand, this collection of essays, written by todays preeminent and rising scholars, examiners most of the well known texts, contexts, genres forms, themes, authors and interpretations of the literature authored by the African dispora in America.

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