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American fiction --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Wideman, John Edgar --- Walker, Alice, --- Naylor, Gloria --- Morrison, Toni --- Johnson, Charles, --- Gaines, Ernest J., --- Bradley, David, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Johnson, Charles Richard, --- Johnson, Charles R. --- Walker, A. --- Leventhal, Alice Walker, --- וואקר, אליס, --- アリスウォーカー, --- Johnson, Charles --- Morrison, Toni,
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""This is truly a major contribution to African American literary criticism, and it promises to elevate Johnson to the place in the literary firmament he so richly deserves."" -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Charles Johnson came of age during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's and 1970's. His fiction bears the imprint of his formal training as a philosopher and his work as a journalist and cartoonist with a well-honed interest in political satire. Mentored by the American writer Jo
Liberty in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Johnson, Charles Richard, --- Johnson, Charles R. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Johnson, Charles --- Enslaved persons in literature
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English drama --- Théâtre anglais --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Bullock, Christopher, --- Johnson, Charles, --- Kenrick, W. --- MacNally, Leonard, --- Middleton, Thomas,
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Johnson, Stephen Lee, --- Klee, Ann Renee, --- Johnson, Charles Edwin, --- Grumbles, Benjamin H. --- Visscher, Gary Lee, --- United States. --- Officials and employees --- Selection and appointment.
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This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambitions and agendas, all four grow progressively more sympathetic to the expectations of a mainstream literary audience, noting the increasingly neglected yet archetypal need for strong explanatory narrative even while remaining wary of its limitations, presumptions, and potential abuses. Exploring novels that manage to bridge the gap between accessible storytelling and literary theory, this book shows how contemporary authors reconcile values of posmodern literary experimentation and traditional realism.
American fiction --- Authors and readers --- Experimental fiction, American --- Irony in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Reader-response criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Johnson, Charles Richard, --- Auster, Paul, --- O'Brien, Tim, --- DeLillo, Don --- Technique.
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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
Literature, Modern --- African literature. --- American literature --- Drama --- European literature --- Literature --- Poetry, Modern --- Popular literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Stories, plots, etc. --- Buruma, Ian. --- Gold, Steven Jay. --- Grafton, Sue. --- Johnson, Charles, --- Thubron, Colin,
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African Americans in literature --- American fiction --- Historical fiction, American --- Household employees in literature --- Literature and history --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History --- Doctorow, E. L., --- Johnson, Charles Richard, --- Morrison, Toni. --- Warren, Robert Penn,
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