Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of IntimacyMichael Cooke examines the essential structure of Afro-American literature as it has developed in the twentieth-century, with special attention to works by Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Robert Hayden, and Alice Walker. |
Contents
James Weldon Johnson | 43 |
The Beginnings of SelfRealization | 71 |
The Power of Association | 110 |
The Interpenetration of the One and the | 133 |
The Search for New Meaning | 208 |
Bibliography of Primary Works of AfroAmerican Literature | 227 |
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