the question of authenticity in twentieth-century African American literature /
First Statement of Responsibility
Shelly Eversley.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (111 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Literary criticism and cultural theory
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.