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Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction - Softcover

Keith E. Byerman

 
9780820337760: Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0820337765 ISBN 13: 9780820337760
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Fingering the Jagged Grain, Keith E. Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more expressive, imaginative, and artistic fiction inspired by the example of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Combining a strong concern for technique and craftsmanship with elements of African American heritage including jazz, blues, spirituals, cautionary tales, and voodoo, these writers have created a vital fiction that celebrates the strength and resilience of the black American voice as it recounts the painful details and brutal episodes of black experience.

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About the Author

KEITH E. BYERMAN is a professor of English at Indiana State University. He is the author or editor of six previous books, including Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.

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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820337765
ISBN 13 
9780820337760
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
322