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The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures New edition
Eric J. Sundquist
The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures New edition
Eric J. Sundquist
Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, and Arna Bontemps’s Black Thunder.
168 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 1, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780820327945 |
Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 168 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 10 mm · 227 g |
Language | English |