G D Jarrett

Broschiertes Buch

A Companion to African American Literature

Beschreibung

Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day

Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies
Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature
Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices

Autor

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. 

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A118438780
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9781118438787
• ISBN-10: 1118438787
• Artikelnr.: 36734303

Rezensionen

A master archivist and historian of African American literature, Gene Jarrett has assembled a compelling new collection of essays for this necessary addition to the study of African American writing and thought. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the African American canon, but also goes in new directions, giving fresh emphasis to the earliest writing of African Americans as well as to the exciting field of Latino/-a writing in the African Diaspora. This is a field-defining collection."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

"A Companion to African American Literature is a pathbreaking collection that will revolutionize the study of African American literature and literary culture. Written by leading established and emerging scholars in the field, the essays both provide a comprehensive overview of African American literary trends and preoccupations and challenge our conventional understanding of racial and national identities, literary genres, and intertextual influences. Accessible yet scholarly, this volume will be of enormous value to scholars, students, and general readers."--Valerie Smith, Princeton University

"Presenting a comprehensive overview of the field from the 20th cen-tury to the present, A Companion to African American Literature, ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett (Wiley-Blackwell), provides readers with a fairly comprehensive overview of one of America's richest literary traditions." (American Literary Scholarship, 2012)