Reading Contemporary African American Literature

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Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Author : Beauty Bragg
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Publisher : Lexington Books
Language : English
Release Date : 12 November 2014
ISBN : 9780739188798
Pages : 140 pages
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This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison’s mythic fiction to Wahida Clark’s street lit.

Reading Contemporary African American Literature

This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison’s mythic fiction to Wahida Clark’

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