Emerging Afrikan Survivals : An Afrocentric Critical Theory

Name: Emerging Afrikan Survivals:An Afrocentric Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780203483978

doi:10.4324/9780203483978

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ABSTRACT

This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville Incident .

Emerging Afrikan Survivals

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |1 pages

Part I Emerging Afrikan Survivals: An Afrocentric Critical Theory

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Historically Situating African American Culture

chapter 3|30 pages

Change and Cultural Representation in African American Literary Criticism

chapter 4|15 pages

Recent Directions in African American Literary Criticism

part |1 pages

Part II Application of the Afrocentric Critical Theory: Three Troubled Men

chapter |5 pages

Overview to Part II

chapter 5|12 pages

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

chapter 6|14 pages

David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident

chapter 7|14 pages

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

chapter 8|14 pages

A Review of Contemporary African American Novels

chapter 9|5 pages

Conclusion