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Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays, Volume 1: The Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes by M. Thomas Inge, Maurice Duke, Jackson R. Bryer (eds.) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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The last two decades have witnessed a great proliferation of scholarship devoted to the history and culture of Afro-Americans. And out of this increasing recognition of the contribution of blacks to the development of this nation has come a significant reassessment of the aesthetic and humanistic achievements of black writers. Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays is intended as an appraisal of the best biographical and critical writings about America's seminal black writers, as well as an identification of manuscript and special resources for continued study. It is also intended to give an overview of the current state of scholarly recognition of the lives and careers of these authors and an appreciation of their works. The coverage is intentionally selective, both in the figures involved and the material examined in each chapter. Yet we feel that, within our self-imposed chronological limit, no major Afro-American literary figure has been overlooked. Volume 1 covers the early black writers of the eighteenth century, the slave narratives, the early modern writers, the Harlem Renaissance, and Langston Hughes. Volume 2 focuses on four major twentieth-century black writers:

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Author
M. Thomas Inge, Maurice Duke, Jackson R. Bryer (eds.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
1978
Language
EN
ISBN
9780333258927
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Historical Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

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