Title:	The postwar African American novel :
Other Titles:	Protest and Discontent, 1945–1950
Authors:	Stephanie, Brown
Keywords:	American fiction—African American authors—History and criticism.
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Mississippi
Description:	A short article in a recent issue of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education echoed what is likely to be common knowledge among English teachers: Of the many possible indicators of canonicity in African American literature, the roster of CliffsNotes titles is one of the most reliable (“Black Authors”). The author noted that of the 247 works available in 2001 from CliffsNotes, the 16 by black writers, ranging from Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson before Dying, undoubtedly make up the core of African American literary texts offered in college English classes. Of course, 16 books can give only the sketchiest representation of the literary output of a period of nearly 150 years. Perhaps it is inevitable, then, that only two novelists represent African American literature from 1940 until 1965 and that they are Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9746
ISBN:	978-1-60473-974-9
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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