Valerie Babb

History of the African American Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A History of the African American Novel offers an in-depth overview of the development of the novel and its major genres. In the first part of this book, Valerie Babb examines the evolution of the novel from the 1850s to the present, showing how the concept of black identity has transformed along with the art form. The second part of this History explores the prominent genres of African American novels, such as neoslave narratives, detective fiction, and speculative fiction, and considers how each one reflects changing understandings of blackness. This book builds on other literary histories by including early black print culture, African American graphic novels, pulp fiction, and the history of adaptation of black novels to film. By placing novels in conversation with other documents - early black newspapers and magazines, film, and authorial correspondence - A History of the African American Novel brings many voices to the table to broaden interpretations of the novel's development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108206228
• Artikelnr.: 49118312

Autorenporträt

Valerie Babb is Franklin Professor of English and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia. She has been a professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC and a faculty member of the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. Among her publications are Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture (1998), Black Georgetown Remembered (1991), a book and a video described as 'the history behind the Oprah Book Club selection River, Cross My Heart (1999),' and Ernest Gaines (1991). She edited The Langston Hughes Review from 2000-2010. She has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York and is the recipient of a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship in American Studies. She has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, and has presented a Distinguished W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. History: Introduction
1. Out of many one: the beginnings of a novelistic tradition, 1850s-1900s
2. Publish or perish: African American novels, 1900s-1920s
3. Aesthetics of race and culture: African American novels, 1920s-1940s
4. Home of the brave: African American novels, 1940s-1960s
5. Black arts and beyond: African American novels, 1960s-1970s
6. From margin to center: African American novels, 1970s-1990s
7. 'Bohemian cult-nats': African American novels, 1990s and beyond
Part II. Significant Genres of the African American Novel: Introduction
8. The neo-slave narrative
9. The detective novel
10. The speculative novel
11. African American pulp
12. The black graphic novel
13. African American novels from page to screen
14. Novels of the diaspora.