Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Jarrett, Gene Andrew
Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Jarrett, Gene Andrew

Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature

For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters...
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Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
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Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Jarrett, Gene Andrew

Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature

€118,44
Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Jarrett, Gene Andrew

Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature

€118,44
Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal and, at times, obscurity. From the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, de facto deans--critics and authors as different as William Howells, Alain Locke, Richard Wright, and Amiri Baraka--prescribed the shifting parameters of realism and racial subject matter appropriate to authentic African American literature, while truant authors such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, George S. Schuyler, Frank Yerby, and Toni Morrison--perhaps the most celebrated African American author of the twentieth century--wrote literature anomalous to those standards.

Jarrett explores the issues at stake when Howells, the Dean of American Letters, argues in 1896 that only Dunbar's entirely black verse, written in dialect, would succeed. Three decades later, Locke, the cultural arbiter of the Harlem Renaissance, stands in contrast to Schuyler, a journalist and novelist who questions the existence of a peculiarly black or New Negro art. Next, Wright's 1937 blueprint for African American writing sets the terms of the Chicago Renaissance, but Yerby's version of historical romance approaches race and realism in alternative literary ways. Finally, Deans and Truants measures the gravitational pull of the late 1960s Black Aesthetic in Baraka's editorial silence on Toni Morrison's first and only short story, Recitatif.

Drawing from a wealth of biographical, historical, and literary sources, Deans and Truants describes the changing notions of race, politics, and gender that framed and were framed by the authors and critics of African American culture for more than a century.

Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01/10/2007
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780812239737

About the Author
Gene Andrew Jarrett teaches English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader and a coeditor of The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar. His articles have appeared in PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Callaloo.
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