African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader

by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $41.18

  It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core. This book aims to show that some celebrated African American authors, such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, have resisted this canonical rule. It also presents sixteen short stories and novelettes to demonstrate this act of literary defiance.