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    This document provides an overview and summary of prominent African American novelists and their works from the 20th century: 1. Major black novelists since Richard Wright include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Their works addressed themes of slavery, protest, identity, and the black experience in America. 2. Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is considered one of the most compelling novels about identity from the 1950s, depicting the journey of a nameless narrator through racism and exploitation. 3. Other influential black novelists mentioned include James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker. Their works explored themes of racial and sexual violence, family, identity, and the struggle for

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    This document provides an overview and summary of prominent African American novelists and their works from the 20th century: 1. Major black novelists since Richard Wright include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Their works addressed themes of slavery, protest, identity, and the black experience in America. 2. Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is considered one of the most compelling novels about identity from the 1950s, depicting the journey of a nameless narrator through racism and exploitation. 3. Other influential black novelists mentioned include James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker. Their works explored themes of racial and sexual violence, family, identity, and the struggle for

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    Prof.dr.

    Rodica Mihaila
    Contemporary American Literature
    Course 1_4
    2
    nd
    Year American Studies

    rd
    Year !n"lish minor
    Sprin" Semester 2#11
    The Black Novel
    Certain outlines of the $lac% no&el emer"e since Richard 'ri"ht (1)#*+1),#- "i&es it
    shape .ith Uncle's Tom Children (1)*-/ Native Son (1)4#-/ Black Boy (1)40-
    Major concerns1
    + memories of sla&ery
    + protest and fury
    + the contradictory search for di"nity in a .orld dominated $y .hite &alues
    + the conflict $et.een the artistic and political natures of the .riter
    + the .riter2s se3ual comple3ities
    + the e3istential 4uality of his life
    + his need for an ethnic definition of himself
    The Negro 5
    + an ima"e of man under certain conditions of ur"ency and stress/ deri&in" life from an
    inner source ( Mailer 6 7erouac-
    + an outsider .ho none the less en"a"es his "uilt/ fantasy and &iolence of others and thus
    em$odies an historic re&elation
    + 'ri"ht says1 89he :e"ro is America2s metaphor8
    9hese are challen"es !llison meets in his Invisible Man (1)02- ; his only $oo% < $oo%
    of essays1 Shado. and Act (1),4-
    Ralph Ellison (1)14+1))4-
    + $orn in =%lahoma ( does not feel all restraints that the old sla&e states on their >lac%s-/
    "randson of sla&es.
    +.ent to a $lac% colle"e in Ala$ama (felt the di&idin" line of se"re"ation ; essay1 ?oin"
    to the 9erritory-
    + @is Sense of the human condition tends to $e more comple3 and e3pansi&e than some
    other >lac% militants allo.
    + an artist educated in sculpture and musicA sho.s a sophisticated sense of form (mi3tures
    of the mar&elous and the terri$le- and sense of BaCC+li%e impro&isation
    +met 'ri"ht in :e. Yor%. @is early .or% (stories- influenced $y 'ri"ht and naturalism.
    +Later/ he de&eloped his o.n style1 mi3ture of realism/ surrealism/ sym$olism/ fol%lore
    and myth.
    Invisible Man (1)02- 5 the most compellin" $oo% a$out identity in the 0#s (naturalism
    and ni"htmare-
    + the nameless hero and narrator of Dn&isi$le Man (an ironic picares4ue- @is tas% 1 to
    mo&e from in&isi$ility to &ision ($e it a pro&isional &ision of thin"s- ;
    +he li&es in an under"round se.er in :e. Yor%/ .hich he furnishes and li"htens up
    $ri"ht $y stealin" electricity. Dt is there that he starts .ritin" his $oo%. @e narrates his
    memories of the 7af%aes4ue pil"rima"e in his early days in the South (hi"h+school
    student/ $lac% colle"e .here the president spurns $lac% American concerns/ e3pelled
    from colle"e he "oes to :e. Yor% and comes across all sorts of croo%s1 a leader of the
    Communist >rotherhood (party politics-/ a preacher .ho turns out to $e a criminal
    (reli"ion-/
    + throu"h the dan"ers/ corruption/ and temptation a.aintin" him/ he recapitulates the
    history of his o.n race/ conductin" a hopeless 8psycholo"ical scrimma"e8 ($attle- .ith
    e&ery one/ himself included.
    + e3ploited $y all E African nationalists/ Southern $i"ots and :orthern li$erals/ .omen
    and ali%e + he proceeds from innocence to disillusionment to the ed"e of a ne. .isdom/ a
    dialectic sense of himself. Dn the under"round se.er he li&es on the ed"e/ is in a F$order
    areaG/ .here he can understand his in&isi$ility and as%s us/ readers/ the 4uestion that ends
    the $oo%1 H'ho %no.s $ut that/ on the lo.er fre4uencies/ D spea% for youIJ (?ray/ p.,K0-
    ?ray1
    + the $rilliant no&el en"a"es issues of @istory/ Soul and Art E it stands as an early
    landmar% in all of post.ar literature.
    +it is a no&el .ho e3plores the pluralities of Am culture and identity
    ; the no&elistGs tas% is Hto challen"e the apparent forms of realityJ and Hto stru""le .ith it
    until it re&eals its mad/ &ari+implicated chaos/ its false faces/ and on until it surrenders its
    insi"ht/ its truth.J (,K,-
    +a no&el in the "reat tradition of Am monolo"ue1 of anecdote and tall tale/ sermon and
    auto$io"raphy/ Bournals and son"s of the self. ; influence of A$salomL and 'ri"htGs
    :ati&e Son
    +it is the no&el as epic and the no&el as myth (e&eryman-
    Other Black Novelists
    James Baldwin ($orn 1)24 + 1)*K- E fiction/ drama/ essays self e3iled in Paris for a
    decade (1)4* + 1)0*-. After his return >ald.in ser&ed as a spo%esman for the artistic
    coscience in its stru""le .ith its >lac% inheritance/ in its aspiration to a human estate.
    Go To Tell It On the Mountain (1)0- + 1
    st
    no&el 5 a story of initiation and of denial
    + depicts the family of a @arlem preacher/ .hose $astard step son/ Mohn ?rimes/ma%es his
    .ay throu"h adolescence to manhood. (auto$io"raphical-. @e ma%es his .ay to a
    reco"nition of his o.n humanity and presence in the community.
    Another Country (1),2-
    Tell Me o! "on# the Train's Been Gone (1),*-
    Dn these 2 no&els he attempts to place racial and political conflicts in an erotic focus.
    Style1 "raceful and apocalyptic
    I$ Beale Street Could Talk (1)K4- + a no&el a$out a .oman2s stru""le to free her falsely
    imprisoned fiancNe.
    %ust Above My ead (1)K)- + retrospecti&ely treats the life of a @arlem "ospel sin"er as
    he and his family search for their identities and for sal&ation.
    1*0K + Harriet nn Jacobs! The "i$e o$ a Slave Girl+ no&el of seduction++ sla&e
    narrati&e.
    "ora Neal H#rston (1)#1+1),#- + antropolo" anii # E marturii ale culturii Afro+
    Americane
    + &iata in interiorul comunitatilor ne"reA po&ara rasismului A inters stiintific.
    e3.1 Their &yes 'ere 'atchin# God (1)K-
    Ma$a ngelo# (1)2*+ - + poeta
    I (no! 'hy the Ca#e Bird Sin#s + po&estea ei + 1, ani
    + 9eme1 inocenta/ supra&ietuire E auto$io"rafic
    identitate E ritmurile lim$ii
    lice %alker (1)44+ - + suporter al drepturilor ci&ile
    + relatia dintre forme de rasism si structura familiei Afro+ Am.
    + &iolenta/ cruCimea/ cultura di&iCata + e3ploreaCa &iolenta rasial si se3uala com$inate
    pentru a distru"e sinele
    Remediu1 dra"ostea materna si familiala chiar si dra"ostea de sine dau un sens al
    identrtatii
    The Color )ur*le (1)*2-
    Toni Morrison &'()* +
    ,oets
    Mar"aret 'al%er (1)10+ - < hist. no&el Mu$ilee (1),,-
    :i%%i ?io&anni
    Sonia SancheC
    9oni Cade >am$ara (1))+
    Maya An"elou (1)2*+
    Lucille Clifton + Generations (1)K,-
    merican Nobel ,ri-e %inners. + Toni Morrison '((/
    Sinclair Le.is 1)#
    =2:eill 1),
    Pearl >uc% 1)*
    9 S !liot 1)4*
    Oaul%ner 1)0#
    @emin".ay 1)04
    Stein$ec% 1),2
    Dsaac Sin"er 1)K* + scriitor in lim$a idisA de ori"ine poloneCa
    CCesla. MilosC 1)*# + poet lituanian A emi"rant din Polonia

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