Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy

Michael G. Cooke

Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1986 - Literary Criticism - 241 pages

Michael Cooke examines the essential structure of Afro-American literature as it has developed in the twentieth-century, with special attention to works by Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Robert Hayden, and Alice Walker.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy; Volume 561 of Literary criticism: Afro-American studies
• Author: Michael G. Cooke
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 1986
• ISBN: 0300036248, 9780300036244
• Length: 241 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / African American