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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Valerie Babb (University of Georgia)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.803kg ISBN: 9781107646780ISBN 10: 1107646782 Pages: 498 Publication Date: 14 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart I. History: Introduction; 1. Out of many one: the beginnings of a novelistic tradition, 1850s–1900s; 2. Publish or perish: African American novels, 1900s–1920s; 3. Aesthetics of race and culture: African American novels, 1920s–1940s; 4. Home of the brave: African American novels, 1940s–1960s; 5. Black arts and beyond: African American novels, 1960s–1970s; 6. From margin to center: African American novels, 1970s–1990s; 7. 'Bohemian cult-nats': African American novels, 1990s and beyond; Part II. Significant Genres of the African American Novel: Introduction; 8. The neo-slave narrative; 9. The detective novel; 10. The speculative novel; 11. African American pulp; 12. The black graphic novel; 13. African American novels from page to screen; 14. Novels of the diaspora.Reviews'This compendious work is a major achievement: Valerie Babb has carefully excavated a huge tradition, spanning more than 150 years and many kinds of writing. She has made a compelling argument for an African American tradition, while also acknowledging that some black writers wished to place themselves outside or at odds with that tradition. With its meticulous and wide survey, the book opens up a wealth of forgotten and neglected texts in every chapter.' Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London 'A much-needed comprehensive history of the African American novelistic imagination, this book tracks the chronological development of the black novel in the US and provides an in-depth look at various genres ... Particularly valuable are the sections on speculative fiction and African American pulp, in which Babb (Univ. of Georgia) discusses writers who do not often receive critical academic attention, or at least not in a scholarly tome alongside established writers ... Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.' D. J. Rosenthal, Choice 'A History of the African American Novel is a highly readable and valuable point of reference. Each periodized chapter, alongside Babb's detailed notes and a lengthy Appendix of African American writers, gives a strong sense of canonical and less familiar black American novels in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. The genre-based chapters trace the development of traditional and popular forms such as detective, speculative, pulp, graphic, and diasporic novels, as well as filmic adaptations.' Bella Adams, Modern Language Review Author InformationValerie Babb is Franklin Professor of English and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia. She has been a professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC and a faculty member of the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. Among her publications are Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture (1998), Black Georgetown Remembered (1991), a book and a video described as 'the history behind the Oprah Book Club selection River, Cross My Heart (1999),' and Ernest Gaines (1991). She edited The Langston Hughes Review from 2000–2010. She has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York and is the recipient of a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship in American Studies. She has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, and has presented a Distinguished W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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