Author: Shelly Eversley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135883343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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