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The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Shelly Eversley 1st edition
The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Shelly Eversley
Historicizing the demand for racial authenticity in 20th-century American literature, Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in "the real negro" transforms the question of what race an author belongs to into a question of what it takes to belong to that race.
112 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 29, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415968355 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 112 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 10 mm · 350 g |
| Language | English |