How their living outside America affected five African American authors : toward a theory of expatriate literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Luczak, Ewa Barbara
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2010]
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. African American authors > Homes and haunts > Europe. African Americans > Europe > History. Expatriation in literature. African Americans in literature. Europe > In literature.

Table of Contents:

From enchantment to criticism of colonial France: James Baldwin's "This morning, this evening, so soon" and William Gardner Smith's The stone face
Escaping racial determinism: Frank Yerby's Parisian romance Speak now
From skepticism to new humanisms or when Europe and Africa converse in Rome: William Demby's The catacombs
Resisting the European seductress in Copenhagen: Cecil Brown's The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass nigger
The quality of hurt: European exile and John A Williams's The man who cried I am
When the United States becomes a point of unavoidable return.