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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Columbia and London. 1995. University Of Missouri Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0826210112. 231 pages. hardcover. Jacket photographs courtesy The Hutchinson Library, London. keywords: Literature America Literary Criticism African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In TEN IS THE AGE OF DARKNESS, Geta LeSeur explores how black authors of the United States and the English-speaking Caribbean have taken a European literary tradition and adapted it to fit their own needs for self-expression. LeSeur begins by defining the European genre of the bildungsroman, then shows how the circumstances of colonialism, oppression, race, class, and gender make the maturing experiences of selected young black protagonists different from those of their white counterparts. Examining the parallels and differences in attitudes toward childhood in the West Indies and the United States, as well as the writers' individual perspectives in each work, LeSeur reaches intriguing conclusions about family life, community participation in the nurturing of children, the timing and severity of the youngsters' confrontation of adult society, and the role played by race in the journey toward adulthood. LeSeur's readings of African American novels provide new insights into the work of Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, and Richard Wright, among others. When read as examples of the bildungsroman rather than simply as chronicles of black experiences, these works reveal an even deeper significance and have a more powerful impact. LeSeur convincingly demonstrates that such African American novels as Baldwin's GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, Wright's BLACK BOY, and Morrison's THE BLUEST EYE concentrate to a large extent on protest, while such African West Indian works as George Lamming's IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN, Austin Clarke's AMONGST THISTLES AND THORNS, and Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN reflect a more naive, healthy re-creation of what childhood can and should be, despite economic and physical impoverishment. inventory #25950.
