Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison

by Richard Kostelanetz

One of America's most distinguished independent artists/intellectuals, Richard Kostelanetz, has written a prescient volume that uses, as a starting point, the philosopher Robin Collingwood's notion that the historian and the novelist have much in common, for both attempt to define the largest lines of historical development. Aside from the introduction and conclusion, which were specifically written for this publication, these insightful chapters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313274711
• ISBN13: 9780313274718
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"