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The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to
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The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to
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The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

by Shelly Eversley
The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
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The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

by Shelly Eversley

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In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135883348
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/29/2004
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 132
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Shelly Eversley, an Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, writes on 20th Century African American Literature, race, gender and sexuality theory. She has two forthcoming books, Integration and Its Discontents and Race and Sex: Theorizations of Literature, Culture and Desire (edited with Robert F. Reid-Pharr).

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Black Man, Blackface: The Case of Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter Two: Racial Hieroglyphics: Zora Neale Hurston and the Rise of the New Negro Chapter Three: Unspoken Words Are Stronger: Narrative Interiority and Racial Visibility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha Chapter Four: Sex and Violence: The Poetics of Black Power Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
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