Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature

by Gene Andrew Jarrett

For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal and,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239733
• ISBN13: 9780812239737
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"