African American Writers and Classical Tradition

by James Tatum, William W. Cook, William Wilson Cook

Book Overview

Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226789969
• ISBN13: 9780226789965
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"