附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Black man, blackface : the case of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- ch. 2. Racial hieroglyphics : Zora Neale Hurston and the rise of the new Negro -- ch. 3. "Unspoken words are stronger" : narrative interiority and racial visibility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha -- ch. 4. Sex and violence : the poetics of black power.
摘要:In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature.