What Was African American Literature?

by Kenneth W. Warren

Book Overview

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature--and to change the terms with which we discuss it.

Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066294
• ISBN13: 9780674066298
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"