Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens

by Keith Gilyard

This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art--one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation.

No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814330576
• ISBN13: 9780814330579
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"