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The waiting years : essays on American Negro literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Blyden
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1976]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • An introductory essay
  • An essay in criticism
  • Largo for Adonais
  • The ring and the book
  • A word about Simple
  • The case for American Negro literature
  • The Negro's image of his universe as reflected in his fiction
  • Richard Wright, Black boy from America's Black belt and urban ghettoes
  • Richard Wright in a moment of truth
  • A review of J. L. Dillard's Black English
  • The minstrel mode
  • Harlem renaissance in the twenties
  • The ghetto of the Negro novel
  • Jean Toomer's Cane
  • A survey course in Negro literature.