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Black American Writing from the Nadir
The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877--1915
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Artikel-Nr:
9780807118061
Veröffentl:
1992
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.1992
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Dickson D Bruce
Gewicht:
363 g
Format:
229x153x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., is professor of comparative culture at the University of California at Irvine. Among his earlier books are Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South and The Rhetoric of Conservatism: The Virginia Convention of 1829-30 and the Conservative Tradition in the South.
In this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work--from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time, these writers, most of whom were members of a small but growing black professional class, displayed a concern for middle-class aspirations and values. Bruce underscores the significance of discerning the tensions between these opposing forces in studying the literature of the time.