Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story

By Robert Bone and Robert Bone

Book Overview

A groundbreaking, comprehensive history and analysis of black short fiction from 1835-1935, Down Home examines the plantation tales of Paul Dunbar, the pastoral stories of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay, the satire of Langston Hughes, and the Southern tales of Arna Bontemps. This is both an important social history and an impressive work of literary criticism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023106859X
• ISBN13: 9780231068598
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"