Ten is the age of darkness : the Black Bildungsroman
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Ten is the age of darkness : the Black Bildungsroman
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- Ten is the age of darkness : the Black Bildungsroman
- Title remainder
- the Black Bildungsroman
- Statement of responsibility
- Geta LeSeur
- Subject
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- African American children in literature
- African American children in literature
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans in literature
- American fiction -- African American authors
- American fiction -- African American authors | History and criticism
- Amerikaans
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- Blacks in literature
- Blacks in literature
- Children, Black, in literature
- Children, Black, in literature
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- Maturation (Psychology) in literature
- Maturation (Psychology) in literature
- Ontwikkelingsromans
- Psychological fiction, American
- Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism
- West Indian fiction (English) -- Black authors | History and criticism
- West Indies
- West Indies -- In literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- In Ten Is the Age of Darkness, Geta LeSeur explores how black authors of the United States and the English-speaking Caribbean have taken a European literary tradition and adapted it to fit their own needs for self-expression. LeSeur begins by defining the European genre of the bildungsroman, then shows how the circumstances of colonialism, oppression, race, class, and gender make the maturing experiences of selected young black protagonists different from those of their white counterparts. Examining the parallels and differences in attitudes toward childhood in the West Indies and the United States, as well as the writers' individual perspectives in each work, LeSeur reaches intriguing conclusions about family life, community participation in the nurturing of children, the timing and severity of the youngsters' confrontation of adult society, and the role played by race in the journey toward adulthood
- LeSeur's readings of African American novels provide new insights into the work of Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, and Richard Wright, among others. When read as examples of the bildungsroman rather than simply as chronicles of black experiences, these works reveal an even deeper significance and have a more powerful impact
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 813.009/352054/08996073
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.N4
- LC item number
- L47 1995eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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