TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gene Andrew Jarrett.
TI  - A companion to African American literature
SN  - 9781405188623
AV  - PS 153.N5 .C66 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Place of publication not identifed]
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865 -- Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940 -- Part III: Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940-Present
N2  - It studies the canons and traditions of African American literature, even as it unsettles their major assumptions and representations. On the other hand, this collection of essays, written by todays preeminent and rising scholars, examiners most of the well known texts, contexts, genres forms, themes, authors and interpretations of the literature authored by the African dispora in America
ER  -