Съдържание:
  • 1.
  • The roots of the early Afro-American novel
  • 2.
  • The early Afro-American novel: historical romance, social realism, and beyond
  • 3.
  • The pre-World War I novels of the old guard: romance, realism, and naturalism
  • 4.
  • The Harlem Renaissance and the search for new modes of narrative
  • 5.
  • Richard Wright and the triumph of naturalism
  • 6.
  • Myth, legend, and ritual in the novel of the fifties
  • 7.
  • The contemporary Afro-American novel, 1: neorealism
  • 8.
  • The contemporary Afro-American novel, 2: modernism and postmodernism.