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The hammers of creation : folk culture in modern African-American fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sundquist, Eric J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1992]
Series:Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 35.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Johnson, James Weldon, > 1871-1938. > Autobiography of an ex-coloured man.
Bontemps, Arna, > 1902-1973. > Black thunder.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Hurston, Zora Neale. > Jonah's gourd vine.
Literature and folklore > United States.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Folklore.
Folklore in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • "These old slave songs": The autobiography of an ex-coloured man
  • "The drum with the man skin": Jonah's gourd vine
  • "A song without words": Black thunder.