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Plenty Ventured, Plenty Gained: African American Literary Scholarship and the New Century

Plenty Ventured, Plenty Gained: African American Literary Scholarship and the New Century Plenty Ventured, Plenty Gained: African American Literary Scholarship and the New Century by Warren J. Carson The Origins of African American Literature, 1680 –1865. 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 lit- erature 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 long- neglected 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 grow- ing maturity in the way we consider literature by and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Plenty Ventured, Plenty Gained: African American Literary Scholarship and the New Century

Carson, Warren J.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 36 (1) – Dec 30, 2003
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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, 1680 –1865. 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 lit- erature 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 long- neglected 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 grow- ing maturity in the way we consider literature by and

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