Research Catalog

Title

South of tradition : essays on African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez.

Author

Harris, Trudier

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xv, 230 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• African Americans in literature
• Southern States > In literature
• Race in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Humor in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Slanting the truth: homosexuality, manhood, and race in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room -- New invisible man: revisiting a nightmare in the 1990s (Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man) -- Zapping the editor, or, how to tell censors to kiss off without really trying: Zora Neale Hurston's fights with authority figures in Dust tracks on a road -- Architecture as destiny? Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul -- The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays -- Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison -- Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer -- Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth" -- Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth -- Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes.

Call Number

Sc D 03-37

ISBN

0820324337 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002006738

OCLC

49727644

Author

Harris, Trudier.

Title

South of tradition : essays on African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez.

Imprint

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc D 03-37