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- 008 711207s1972 nyu b 00000 eng d
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- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)213486 |z (OCoLC)976616155 |z (OCoLC)1039050326 |z (OCoLC)1039217284
- 040 __ |a DLC |c DLC |d m/c |d BHA
- 050 00 |a PS153.N5 |b W54
- 100 1_ |a Williams, Sherley Anne, |d 1944-1999.
- 245 10 |a Give birth to brightness : |b a thematic study in neo-Black literature / |c Sherley Anne Williams.
- 260 __ |a New York, |b Dial Press, |c 1972.
- 300 __ |a 252 p. ; |c 21 cm.
- 504 __ |a Bibliography: p. 244-252.
- 505 0_ |a Introduction. A thematic study in neo-Black literature -- 1. The heroic tradition in Black Americana -- 2. Rebel and streetman in Black literature -- 3. The limitations of a middle-class "hero" -- 4. The limited solution of revolution -- 5. The Black musician : the Black hero as law breaker -- 6. The streetman : the Black hero as light bearer -- Conclusion. A thematic study in neo-Black literature -- Author's afterword. The demands of Blackness on contemporary critics.
- 520 __ |a "This is a study of black writers in America, and it calls attention to the recent trend away from the traditional attitudes of black writers, which involved writing about their experiences in terms of a white audience. This regenesis is the rebirth of black literature and the concurrent rebirth of the attitude and actions of the black people with respect to their social, and moral, and economic relationship to the combined black and white community."
- 650 _0 |a American literature |x Afro-American authors |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a American literature |x African American authors |x Themes, motives.
- 650 _0 |a African Americans |x Intellectual life
- 650 _0 |a African Americans in literature