Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism and the U.S. Literary Marketplace

by Augusta Rohrbach

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Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, Truth Stranger than Fiction shows how African American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. More specifically, Truth Stranger than Fiction traces the influences of generic conventions popularized in slave narratives - such as the use...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312239211

ISBN13:9780312239213

Release Date:March 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:153 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

19th Century Classics Criticism & Theory History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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