Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction

Author/Contributor(s):	Byerman, Keith E
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	08/01/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more expressive, imaginative, and artistic fiction inspired by the example of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.