South of tradition : essays on African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez
- Author
- Harris, Trudier
- Published
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Physical Description
- xv, 230 pages ; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0820324337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Berks copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20023.
Abington copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20023. - Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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