Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban by Coleman, James W.

Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813122045)

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Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban by Coleman, James W.

Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban

$35.00
Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban by Coleman, James W.

Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into modern-day Calibans. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Ke

Author: James W. Coleman
ISBN-10: 081312204X
ISBN-13: 9780813122045
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2001
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 10.80h x 6.06w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2002 pg. 1419
By James W. Coleman
By James W. Coleman
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James W. Coleman, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman.

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