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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Nowlin (University of Victoria, British Columbia)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9781108482073ISBN 10: 1108482074 Pages: 265 Publication Date: 07 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'The first Negro novelist': Charles Chesnutt's point of view and the emergence of African American literature; 2. James Weldon Johnson's dream of literary greatness and his groundwork for an African American literary renaissance; 3. The strange literary career of Jean Toomer; 4. Wallace Thurman's judgment and 'this obvious rush toward modernism'; 5. Zora Neale Hurston and the great unwritten; 6. Richard Wright's compromises: radicalism and celebrity as paths to literary freedom; 7. 'Literary to a fault': the singular triumph of Ralph Ellison; Conclusion.Reviews'Michael Nowlin's Literary Ambition and the African American Novel is a provocative application of Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the literary field to the work of several generations of twentieth-century African American novelists. Nowlin reveals the use these authors made of a narrative of prior black artistic backwardness and provincialism, from which they sought to distinguish themselves. From Charles Chesnutt to Ralph Ellison, they thus hoped to ascend to the realm of 'art' as defined internationally and intergenerationally, and to put African American literature on the map of 'world literature'.' George Hutchinson, Cornell University 'Michael Nowlin's Literary Ambition and the African American Novel is a provocative application of Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the literary field to the work of several generations of twentieth-century African American novelists. Nowlin reveals the use these authors made of a narrative of prior black artistic backwardness and provincialism, from which they sought to distinguish themselves. From Charles Chesnutt to Ralph Ellison, they thus hoped to ascend to the realm of 'art' as defined internationally and intergenerationally, and to put African American literature on the map of 'world literature'.' George Hutchinson, Cornell University Author InformationMichael Nowlin is a specialist in American literature and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness (2007) and is the editor of editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (2007) and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (2002). He has also published articles in Modernism/Modernity, American Literature, African American Review, and Studies in American Fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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