UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition

Bernard W. Bell

Winner of the College Language Association's Distinguished Scholarship Award

"If I had to recommend just one book about Afro-American literature, Bernard W. Bell's The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition would be that book. There is no doubt that it is 'the' book on its specific subject."

Studies in the Humanities

"Bell skillfully intermingles the political and artistic dimensions of Afro-American literature in a way that is at once revealing and definitional. Because Bell keeps his study open to competing versions of reality and different critical approaches, The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition is likely to be a central and formative book in the field of Afro-American literary criticism."

Georgia Review

"Drawing cogently on recent development in literary theory, Bell views black fiction as a socially symbolic act encoding the survival strategies that have developed out of the Afro-American experience of double consciousness. . . . A necessary volume for students of black fiction on all levels."

Choice

Bernard W. Bell is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is editor of W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics (1996), coeditor of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1998), and editor of Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist (2001).

Black Studies / Literary Studies
448 pp.
$27.95s paper, ISBN 0-87023-688-1
1987

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