Blacks in Eden: The African-American Novel's First Century

J. Lee Greene

University Press of Virginia, 1996 - History - 306 pages

This work examines African-American fiction, discussing how African-American novelists worked with the same mythic materials as their white counterparts, but inverted Anglo-American constructions. Relating the novel to history, it shows how they refuted Anglo-Americans' record of history.

About the author

Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, and his books include Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1783; and Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blacks in Eden: The African-American Novel's First Century
• Author: J. Lee Greene
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia, 1996
• ISBN: 0813916712, 9780813916712
• Length: 306 pages
• Subjects: History / African American & Black; Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Novel as Form; Social Science / Black Studies (Global)