Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban

By James W. Coleman

With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into modern-day Calibans. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Ke

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081312204X
• ISBN13: 9780813122045
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 10.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher