The Real Negro
The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature| By: | Shelly Eversley |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138806450 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135883348 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2004 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to