Research Catalog

Title

The geographies of African American short fiction / Kenton Rambsy.

Author

Rambsy, Kenton

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

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Details

Description

172 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the ways African American short story writers plotted a diverse range of characters across multiple locations-small towns, a famous metropolis, city sidewalks, a rural wooded area, apartment buildings, a pond, a general store, a prison, and more. In the process, these writers highlighted the extents to which places and spaces shaped or situated racial representations. Presenting African American short story writers as cultural cartographers, author Kenton Rambsy documents the variety of geographical references within their short stories to show how these authors make cultural spaces integral to their artwork and inscribe their stories with layered and resonant social histories. The history of these short stories also documents the circulation of compositions across dozens of literary collections for nearly a century. Anthology editors solidified the significance of a core group of short story authors including James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Chesnutt, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Using quantitative information and an extensive literary dataset, The Geographies of African American Short Fiction explores how editorial practices shaped the canon of African American short fiction"--

Series Statement

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Uniform Title

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Subject

• American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
• African Americans > Fiction
• Geography in literature
• Geographical perception in literature
• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Space in literature
• Geocriticism
• Setting (Literature)
• African Americans
• American fiction > African American authors

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Locating the Big 7: One Hundred Anthologies and the Most Frequently Anthologized Black Short Stories -- ch. 2 Writing the South: Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright -- ch. 3 The Paradox of Homegrown Outsiders: Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker -- ch. 4 New York Cityscapes: James Baldwin and Toni Cade Bambara -- ch. 5 Up South: Geo-Tagging DC and Edward P. Jones's Homegrown Characters.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1184

ISBN

• 9781496838728
• 1496838726
• 9781496838735
• 1496838734

LCCN

2021055328

OCLC

1282007240

Author

Rambsy, Kenton, author.

Title

The geographies of African American short fiction / Kenton Rambsy.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1184