{"product_id":"black-fiction-by-roger-rosenblatt-1974-hardcover-1st-edition","title":"BLACK FICTION by Roger Rosenblatt  \/ 1974 \/ Hardcover \/ 1st Edition","description":"\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBlack Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eROSENBLATT, ROGER\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 1974. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 24cm.  Black cloth covered boards titled in silver on the cover and spine. Library card at rear, small sticker on tail of jacket, library stamp on title page-  \"Leningrad USSR American Consulate General.\" Ex-library copy. Very Good or better. Text is CLEAN.  Dustjacket is unclipped in Very Good condition. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA work of literary analysis of African American literature featuring discussions of the writings of Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and many more. In this illuminating book Roger Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception of history on which practically every significant black American novel and short story is based. Marked for oppression by an external physical characteristic, black characters struggle constantly against and within a hostile world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"duttyboukman.art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41224110768280,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3935\/8872\/products\/DSC_0049.jpg?v=1635784420","url":"https:\/\/duttyboukman.art\/products\/black-fiction-by-roger-rosenblatt-1974-hardcover-1st-edition","provider":"Dutty Boukman","version":"1.0","type":"link"}