The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel - Paperback

Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity.

• | Author: Maryemma Graham
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2004
• | Number of Pages: 340 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521016371
• | ISBN-13: 9780521016377