The Real Negro
Author | : Shelly Eversley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2004-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135883348 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135883343 |
Rating | : 4/5 (343 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Real Negro written by Shelly Eversley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to