Contemporary African American Novel
In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published "The Afro-American Noveland Its Tradition," a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. The book won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the College Language Association and was reprinted five times. Now Bell has produced a new volume that serves as a sequel and companion to the earlier work, expanding the coverage to 2001. Bell also refines and extends his interpretive model for reading...
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Applying the strategic essentialism and oppositional discourse for interpreting African American narratives that he introduced in his 1987 The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, Bell (English, Pennsylvania State U.) presents a sociohistorical, sociocultural, and sociophyschological critical history of the contemporary African American novel as a socially symbolic act of cultural politics and narrative discourse. He focuses primarily on novels and romances published between 1983 and 2001. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORThe Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyBell's sequel to his book The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition is an ambitious book, summarizing and updating his prior scholarship on the African American novel from 1853 to 1983 while also extending this scholarship to include novels published through 2001. . . .The principal strengths of 'The Contemporary African American Novel' are its breadth, depth, and thorough scholarship.
Memoir : on becoming an African American scholar activist1Mapping the rhetoric, politics, and poetics of representation in the contemporary African American novel92The roots of the contemporary African American novel593Mapping the peaks and valleys of the African American novel (1853-1962)944Forms of neorealism : critical and poetic realism (1962-1983)1305Modernism and postmodernism (1962-1983)1866Continuity and change in ethnic tropes of identity formation (1983-2001)2507The new black aesthetic : Eurocentric metafiction and African Americentric tropes of transcultural identity and community (1983-2001)3018Contemporary African American paraliterature : science/speculative fiction, gay/lesbian, and detective/mystery novels and romances (1983-2001)333
\ The Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyBell's sequel to his book The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition is an ambitious book, summarizing and updating his prior scholarship on the African American novel from 1853 to 1983 while also extending this scholarship to include novels published through 2001. . . .The principal strengths of 'The Contemporary African American Novel' are its breadth, depth, and thorough scholarship.\ \
