TY - BOOK AU - Cooke,Michael G. TI - Afro-American literature in the twentieth century: the achievement of intimacy SN - 0300032188 (alk. paper) AV - PS153.N5 C67 1984 U1 - 810/.9/896073 19 PY - 1984/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - African Americans in literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Histoire et critique KW - 20e siècle KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Letterkunde KW - gtt KW - Amerikaans KW - Negers KW - Literatur KW - swd KW - USA KW - Schwarze KW - English literature KW - American negro writers, 1900-1981 - Critical studies N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 227-234; Introduction : Building on "signifying" and the blues -- Self-veiling : James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, and Nella Larsen -- Solitude : the beginnings of self-realization in Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison -- Kinship : the power of association in Michael Harper and Eldridge Cleaver -- Intimacy : the interpenetration of the one and the all in Robert Hayden and Alice Walker -- Tragic and ironic denials of intimacy : Jean Toomer, James Baldwin, and Ishmael Reed -- After intimacy : the search for new meaning in recent black fiction UR - http://www.archive.org/details/afroamericanlite00cook UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2843118M ER -