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019			_a(OCoLC)1013945181
019			_a(OCoLC)979968266
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082	0	4	_a810.9/352996073
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aJarrett, Gene Andrew _eautore
245	1	0	_aDeans and Truants : _bRace and Realism in African American Literature / _cGene Andrew Jarrett.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2013]
264		4	_c©2007
300			_a1 online resource (232 p.) : _b7 illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction: The Problem of African American Literature -- _tChapter 1. "Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed" -- _tChapter 2. "We Must Write Like the White Men" -- _tChapter 3. "The Conventional Blindness of the Caucasian Eye" -- _tChapter 4. "The Impress of Nationality Rather than Race" -- _tChapter 5. ''A Negro Peoples' Movement in Writing" -- _tChapter 6. "The Race Problem Was Not a Theme for Me" -- _tChapter 7. ''A-World-in-Which-Race-Does-Not-Matter" -- _tNotes -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aFor 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, at times, obscurity. From the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, de facto deans-critics and authors as different as William Howells, Alain Locke, Richard Wright, and Amiri Baraka-prescribed the shifting parameters of realism and racial subject matter appropriate to authentic African American literature, while truant authors such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, George S. Schuyler, Frank Yerby, and Toni Morrison-perhaps the most celebrated African American author of the twentieth century-wrote literature anomalous to those standards.Jarrett explores the issues at stake when Howells, the "Dean of American Letters," argues in 1896 that only Dunbar's "entirely black verse," written in dialect, "would succeed." Three decades later, Locke, the cultural arbiter of the Harlem Renaissance, stands in contrast to Schuyler, a journalist and novelist who questions the existence of a peculiarly black or "New Negro" art. Next, Wright's 1937 blueprint for African American writing sets the terms of the Chicago Renaissance, but Yerby's version of historical romance approaches race and realism in alternative literary ways. Finally, Deans and Truants measures the gravitational pull of the late 1960s Black Aesthetic in Baraka's editorial silence on Toni Morrison's first and only short story, "Recitatif."Drawing from a wealth of biographical, historical, and literary sources, Deans and Truants describes the changing notions of race, politics, and gender that framed and were framed by the authors and critics of African American culture for more than a century.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aAfrican American aesthetics.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vIntellectual life.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _vAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _vAfrican American authors.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		4	_aCultural Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. _2bisacsh
653			_aCultural Studies.
653			_aLiterature.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202359
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202359
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