Modern Black novelists ; a collection of critical essays /

Modern Black novelists ; a collection of critical essays / edited by M.G. Cooke.

Selected essays examine the nature and impact of contemporary fiction by such writers as Baldwin, Achebe, Ellisan and Wright.

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Other Authors: Cooke, Michael G. (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1971]
Series:Twentieth century views.
Subjects:
Ellison, Ralph > Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation.
Achebe, Chinua > Criticism and interpretation.
Camara, Laye > Criticism and interpretation.
Naipaul, V. S. > (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), > 1932-2018 > Criticism and interpretation.
Mongo Beti, > 1932-2001 > Criticism and interpretation.
Fiction > Black authors > History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Negritude : literature and ideology / Abiola Irele
  • Roots / Ezekiel Mphahlele
  • Tradition and the West Indian novel / Wilson Harris
  • Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone
  • Nightmare of a native son : Invisible man, by Ralph Ellison / Jonathan Baumbach
  • Black existentialism : Richard Wright / Kingsley Widmer
  • Fathers and sons in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Michel Fabre
  • The African personality in the African novel / Robert W. July
  • Chinua Achebe / Anne Tibble
  • The idea of assimilation : Mongo Beti and Camara Laye / Jeannette Macaulay
  • Camara Laye : another interpretation / Janheinz Jahn
  • Discovery / Gerald Moore
  • The ironic approach : the novels of V.S. Naipaul / Gordan Rohlehr
  • The fugitive in the forest : four novels by Wilson Harris / John Hearne
  • The road to Banana bottom / Kenneth Ramchand.

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