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Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, gently shelf worn, no dj, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a clean used copy! 321 historical pages! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. "Our understanding of any significant movement in human affairs can hardly be said even to approach completeness until the evidence from literature is in. Because writers of fiction and poetry tend to grope for meanings rather than superimpose them ---- Yeats called this process the 'public dream' ---- literary criticism can bring to the surface what otherwise might lie buried in the culture's subconscious. And this is perhaps even more true for the history of the Negro in American literature than for other cultural phenomena ---- the Westward Movement or the Industrial Revolution, for example ---- since so much of that history has been an unconscious, or at least…
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Chicago, Illinois, USA: University of Chicago Press, 1966. CH4 - A trade paperback book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plusthere is a crease on the front cover along the spine edges plus there is some light yellowing on the spine plus there is some light edge wear mainly in the form of some light chipping on the bottom spine edge plus there is some light yellowing of the outside paper edges plus there is the original owner's name and a date in ink on the front endpaper plus there are some interline notes in ink on the table of contents page. This is a title in the publisher's Patterns of Literary Criticism series. A collection of scholarly articles on the image of the Africa-American in American life as portrayed in American literature. This book is notable for its awareness of the question of objectivity in sociological, political, and economic perspectives and the naivety of American social attitudes towards African-American lives and character. Bibliography, indexed, 321p.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Keywords Nonfiction Non-fiction Literature Literary Criticism American United States U.S. U. S. US U S USA U.S.A. African American African-American Afro American Studies Negro Patterns Literary Criticism Literature Colonial Novel Southern Novels Southern Reconstru
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IMAGES OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
by Gross, Seymour L. and Hardy, John Edward
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Forth impression. Fine in d.j.. Forth impression. x, 321p. Gilt-titled blue cloth.
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