Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Literature

Translated from German by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger. NY: Grove Press, (1969.) 1st edition. A scholarly study that relates the origins of black writing, in the United States and elsewhere, to the African tradition. A comprehensive analysis of how the cultural past of the African continent is manifested in the black literature of the U.S., Latin America, the West Indies, and elsewhere. A rich and varied survey that includes material on early writers of African descent; the African oral tradition; Afro-Arabic literature; Protest literature; African-American writing in the 19th century; the Negro spiritual; minstrels and voodoo; blues and calypso; the Negro Renaissance; 'Indigenism' in Haiti and 'Negrism' in Cuba; the "Negritude' school; and more. 301 pages with appendix and index.. 8vo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. Light spotting to top of text block, but VG+ otherwise. Sound, tight binding. No owner signatures or other markings. DJ is protected by a new clear archival cover.