Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban /:

With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they of...

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1. Verfasser: Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-2019
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
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Zusammenfassung:With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into modern-day Calibans. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Trey Ellis, David Bradley, and Wesley Brown. He traces the Caliban legacy to early literary in.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (193 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-183) and index.
ISBN:081317077X
9780813170770
9780813158686
0813158680

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