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IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRAIN: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which traces the impact of African and African American oral storytelling techniques on black fiction, through an analysis of the works of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines and others. Index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-252-014596.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to flap of dj)
Book ID: 16016More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRAIN: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which traces the impact of African and African American oral storytelling techniques on black fiction, through an analysis of the works of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines and others. Index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-252-014596.
Condition: Ex-library with only a few markings, overall tight and clean in a fine dj.
Book ID: 18257More details Price: $16.50 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, a few scattered marginal notations.)
Book ID: 88756More details Price: $28.50 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)
Book ID: 88757More details Price: $35.00
