Book description
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres,
historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches,
A Companion to African American Literature
presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American
literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day
- Examines African American literature from its earliest origins,
through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading
into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary
African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies
- Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African
American literature
- Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well
as newer voices
Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of
English at Boston University. He is the author of Representing the
Race: A New Political History of African American Literature
(2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American
Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes
and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.
