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 that race. Consequently, Paul Laurence Dunbar's Negro dialect poems were prized in the first part of the century because-written by…
Author: Shelly Eversley · Original publisher: Routledge (New York, 2004)
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