African American Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0321113411
- ISBN-13
- 9780321113412
- Series
- African American Literature
- Category
- African Americans
- Pages
- 1351
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-01-01
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- Authors
- Keith Gilyard, Anissa Janine Wardi
Description
African-American Literature is a thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature. The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African-American literature. The thematic approach gives students a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.
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