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NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
by Margolies, Edward
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)/near fine
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Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, 1968.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages). First printing. Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
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- 88757
- Title
- NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
- Author
- Margolies, Edward
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lippincott,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- 1968.
- Keywords
- duBois, Attaway, Chesnutt, Paul Dunbar, langston hughes, jean toomer, claude mckay, countee cullen, chester himes, james baldwin, ralph ellison, leroi jones, william denby, literary criticism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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