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Plenty Ventured, Plenty Gained: African American Literary Scholarship and the New Century by Warren J. Carson The Origins of African American Literature, 16801865. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2001. xvi + 374 pages. $55.00. Rethinking the Slave Narrative. By Charles Heglar. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. viii + 170 pages. $45.55. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban. By James W. Coleman. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 193 pages. $45.00. Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest Gaines. By Mary Ellen Doyle. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. xiv + 245 pages. $45.55. The rate with which volumes of criticism and literary history of African American literature continue to emerge leads to two equally important observations. First, the more scholars and students of African American literature probe primary texts and extant criticism, the more work they find yet to be accomplished in an effort to develop a full body of criticism for a longneglected canon. Secondly, more than ever before it is possible to discern a certain meditative quality in many of these studies, a fact that suggests a growing maturity in the way we consider literature by and about African Americans.
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Dec 30, 2003
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