Afro-American Writers after 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers

by Thadious M. Davis, Trudier Harris

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African-American dramatists and prose writers whose works grew out of or shaped the black arts movement, by creating prose and theatrical works relevant to black Americans. Works that reflect the increasing importance of autobiography and biography for expressing conceptions of self and of the meaning of Afro-American history.

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Thadious M. Davis is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Vanderbilt University.
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Trudier Harris-Lopez is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Afro-American Writers after 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers
Original publication date
1985

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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810.9Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishHistory and criticism of American literature
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PS153 .N5 .A39Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literature
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