Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Literature
by Jahn, Janheinz
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Elizabethtown, New York, United States
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About This Item
Translated from German by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger. NY: Grove Press, (1969.) 1st edition. A scholarly study that relates the origins of black writing, in the United States and elsewhere, to the African tradition. A comprehensive analysis of how the cultural past of the African continent is manifested in the black literature of the U.S., Latin America, the West Indies, and elsewhere. A rich and varied survey that includes material on early writers of African descent; the African oral tradition; Afro-Arabic literature; Protest literature; African-American writing in the 19th century; the Negro spiritual; minstrels and voodoo; blues and calypso; the Negro Renaissance; 'Indigenism' in Haiti and 'Negrism' in Cuba; the "Negritude' school; and more. 301 pages with appendix and index.. 8vo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. Light spotting to top of text block, but VG+ otherwise. Sound, tight binding. No owner signatures or other markings. DJ is protected by a new clear archival cover.
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- Bookseller
- Lux Libri
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000453
- Title
- Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Literature
- Author
- Jahn, Janheinz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Grove
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism / Biography;
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About Lux Libri
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