{"product_id":"fingering-the-jagged-grain-keith-e-byerman-9780820337760","title":"Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction","description":"In \u003ci\u003eFingering the Jagged Grain\u003c\/i\u003e, Keith E. Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more expressive, imaginative, and artistic fiction inspired by the example of Ralph Ellison's\u003ci\u003e Invisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e. Combining a strong concern for technique and craftsmanship with elements of African American heritage including jazz, blues, spirituals, cautionary tales, and voodoo, these writers have created a vital fiction that celebrates the strength and resilience of the black American voice as it recounts the painful details and brutal episodes of black experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith E. Byerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820337765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820337760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Keith E. Byerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965155819775,"sku":"9780820337760","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a70b57e4-9100-4050-92bd-e64e598af8a4.jpg?v=1767278860","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fingering-the-jagged-grain-keith-e-byerman-9780820337760","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}