Images of the Negro in American Literature

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, gently shelf worn, no dj, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a clean used copy! 321 historical pages! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. "Our understanding of any significant movement in human affairs can hardly be said even to approach completeness until the evidence from literature is in. Because writers of fiction and poetry tend to grope for meanings rather than superimpose them ---- Yeats called this process the 'public dream' ---- literary criticism can bring to the surface what otherwise might lie buried in the culture's subconscious. And this is perhaps even more true for the history of the Negro in American literature than for other cultural phenomena ---- the Westward Movement or the Industrial Revolution, for example ---- since so much of that history has been an unconscious, or at least half-conscious, masking of issues that have been contorted by fear, guilt, and rage." ---- from the Introduction Stereotype to Archetype: The Negro in American Literary Criticism. Third Printing. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.