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Mythic Black fiction
the transformation of history
By Campbell, Jane
- ISBN
- 978-0-87049-508-3
- Publisher
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1986.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1986
Campbell's survey of black American historical fiction hypothesizes that black writers had to create a mythology to portray, in Darwin T. Turner's words, "a transcendental vision of what might be.'' By invoking the power of myth, the black artist could reach readers at the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
