Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel - by K Drake (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.

Review Quotes

“Readers will welcome this book into the academy, for it captures the intellectual scholarship of “black textualities and psychoanalysis,” especially of familiar and classic African American female and male characters.”-- Hazel Arnett Ervin, Fulbright Scholar and UNCF/Mellon Fellow and editor of "African American Literary Criticism"; "The Handbook of African American Literature"; Ann Petry: A Bio-Bibliography; "Ann Petry’s Short Fiction: Critical Essays" (with Hilary Holladay) and "The Critical Responses to Ann Petry"

About the Author

KIMBERLY S. DRAKE Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Associate Professor at Scripps College, USA.