the question of authenticity in twentieth-century African American literature /
Shelly Eversley.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (111 pages)
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Black man, blackface : the case of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- ch. 2. Racial hieroglyphics : Zora Neale Hurston and the rise of the new Negro -- ch. 3. "Unspoken words are stronger" : narrative interiority and racial visibility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha -- ch. 4. Sex and violence : the poetics of black power.
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In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature.