In this illuminating book Roger Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception of history on which practically every significant black American novel and short story is based. Marked for oppression by an external physical characteristic, black characters struggle constantly against and within a hostile ...
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In this illuminating book Roger Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception of history on which practically every significant black American novel and short story is based. Marked for oppression by an external physical characteristic, black characters struggle constantly against and within a hostile world. Rosenblatt's analysis of the way black protagonists try to break historical patterns provides an integrated and sustained interpretation of motives and methods in black fiction. The black hero, after starting on a circular track, may try to change direction by means of his youth, love, education, or humor; or he may try to escape into his own elusive and vague history. But, as Rosenblatt demonstrates, these attempts all fail. And the black hero discovers in the failure of his attempts that the society which caused all this failure is not only unattainable but undesirable. Neither a sociological study nor a routine survey, this is distinctly a work of literary criticism which concentrates on black fiction as literature.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Inscription appears on title page, and reads: "For Doris from Roger with affection and admiration. 3.17.75". A nice copy with light normal scuffs on dust jacket and book. A study of Black literature. 211 pages.
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Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1976. 3rd printing. 8vo. 211pp. Inscribed by author on half title. Good book. From the collection of political advisor and lobbyist Jack Valenti. Valenti served as Special Assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson and also presided over the Motion Picture Association of America where he created the MPAA film rating. (African American authors, fiction, history, criticism, interpretation) [ISBN 0674076222] Inquire if you need further information.
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