A Student's Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0820455210
- ISBN-13
- 9780820455211
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 219
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Lovalerie King
Description
A Students' Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present is designed to assist college students (and others) who are relative novices to the study of African American literature. Focusing on the prose tradition (from early autobiographical narratives to contemporary fiction), the author highlights themes, issues, and motifs peculiar to, and recurring in, African American literature, while providing students with more specific information on a number of key texts. Each chapter comes with suggestions for assignments and a selected bibliography for further research. The book also contains an appendix, which contains six student essays, as well as a useful glossary.
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