Michael Nowlin

Literary Ambition and the African American Novel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781108482073
• ISBN-10: 1108482074
• Artikelnr.: 56875277

Autorenporträt

Michael Nowlin is a specialist in American literature and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness (2007) and is the editor of editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (2007) and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (2002). He has also published articles in Modernism/Modernity, American Literature, African American Review, and Studies in American Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'The first Negro novelist': Charles Chesnutt's point of view and the emergence of African American literature
2. James Weldon Johnson's dream of literary greatness and his groundwork for an African American literary renaissance
3. The strange literary career of Jean Toomer
4. Wallace Thurman's judgment and 'this obvious rush toward modernism'
5. Zora Neale Hurston and the great unwritten
6. Richard Wright's compromises: radicalism and celebrity as paths to literary freedom
7. 'Literary to a fault': the singular triumph of Ralph Ellison
Conclusion.