ERIC Number: ED039252
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Publication Date: 1968
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Native Sons: A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American Authors.
Margolies, Edward
This analysis of 20th-century Negro literature contains chapters discussing 16 authors: (1) "The First Forty Years: 1900-1940," including W. E. B. DuBois, Charles W. Chesnutt, James W. Johnson, Paul L. Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen; (2) "Migration: William Attaway and 'Blood on the Forge'"; (3) "Richard Wright: 'Native Son' and Three Kinds of Revolution"; (4) "Race and Sex: The Novels of Chester Himes"; (5) "The Negro Church: James Baldwin and the Christian Vision"; (6) "History as Blues: Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'"; (7) "The New Nationalism: Malcolm X"; (8) "The Expatriate as Novelist: William Demby"; and (9) "Prospects: Le Roi Jones?" (JM)
Descriptors: Authors, Black Achievement, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black History, Black Leadership, Black Literature, Black Power, Literary Criticism, Novels, Poetry, Racial Discrimination, Twentieth Century Literature
J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 19105 ($1.95)
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