Introduction Part One: The Roots of the Early Afro-American Novel 1.1. Sociopsychological Roots: Double Consciousness, Double Vision, and Socialized Ambivalence 1.2. African Oral Narratives 1.3. Afro-American Folk Roots 1.4.
Residually Oral Forms: Oratory, Myth, Legend, Tale, and Song 1.5. Literary Sources a. Abolitionist Literature b. The Bible c. Popular Fiction Part Two: The Early Afro-American Novel: Historical Romance, Social Realism, and Beyond 2.1. Antebellum Novels a.
William Wells Brown b. Frank J. Webb c. Harriet E. Wilson d. Martin Robison Delany 2.2. Postbellum Novels a.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper b. Sutton Elbert Griggs c. Charles Waddell Chestnut d. Paul Laurence Dunbar Part Three: The Pre-World War I Novels of the Old Guard: Romance, Realism, and Naturalism 3.1. Romance, Realism, and Naturalism a. William Edward Burghart Du Bois b. James Weldon Johnson 3.
2. Legacy of the Old Guard Part Four: The Harlem Renaissance and the Search for New Modes of Narrative 4.1. Poetic Realism and Historical Romance a. Nathan Eugene Toomer b. Arna Wendell Bontemps 4.2.Genteel Realism: Assimilation, Nationalism, or Biculturalism a.
Jessie Redmon Fauset b. Nella Larsen 4.3. Folk Romance: Pastoralism, Primitivism, and Ancestralism a. Festus Claudius McKay b. Zora Neale Hurston 4.4. Folk Realism: Religion, Music, Humor, and Language a.
James Langston Hughes b. Countee Porter Cullen 4.5. Satiric Realism: The Vices and Follies of the Folk and Bourgeoisie a. Rudolph Fisher b. George Samuel Schuyler c. Wallace Thurman Part Five: Richard Wright and the Triumph of Naturalism 5.1.
The ?Chicago School? of Sociology 5.2. The Great Depression and the Communist Party 5.3. The Federal Writers a. Richard Nathaniel Wright 5.4.The Triumph of Naturalism a.
William Attaway b. Chester Bomar Himes c. Ann lane Petry d. William Gardner Smith 5.5. Continuity and Change in the Novel of the Fifties Part Six: Myth, Legend, and the Ritual in the Novel of the Fifties 6.1. Beyond Naturalism 6.
2. Myth, Legend, and Ritual a. Ralph Waldo Emerson b. James Arthur Baldwin Part Seven: The Contemporary Afro-American Novel, 1: Neorealism 7.1. The Black Power and Black Arts Movements 7.2. The Women''s Rights Movement 7.
3. Toward Modernism 7.4. Literacy Neorealism: Critical and Poetic 7.5. Critical Realism a. John Oliver Killens b. John Alfred Williams c.
Alice Walker 7.6. Poetic Realism and the Gothic Fable a. Chloe Anthony ?Toni? Morrison 7.7. Continuity in the Novel of the Sixties and Seventies Part Eight: The Contemporary Afro-American Novel 2, Modernism and Postmodernism 8.1. Modernism and Postmodernism 8.
2. Fabulation, Legend, and Neo-slave Narrative a. Margaret Abigail Walker b. Ernest J. Gaines c. William Melbin Kelley d. Ronald L. Fair 8.
3. Fabulation, Romance, and Fantasy a. John Edgar Wideman b. Clarence Major 8.4. Fabulation and Satire a. Charles Stevenson Wright b. George ?Hall? Bennett c.
Ishmael Reed 8.5. Change in the Novel of the Sixties and Seventies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.