Fingering the Jagged Grain
Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction
Title Details
Pages: 322
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Paperback
Pub Date: 08/01/2010
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3776-0
List Price: $34.95
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Fingering the Jagged Grain
Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction
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[A] detailed, sensitive, and workmanlike study . . . one cannot leave Fingering the Jagged Grain without great appreciation of its author’s holistic reading of recent black fiction and his honest and enlightening exploration of its complexities and its power.
—Callaloo
Fingering the Jagged Grain sturdily and persuasively accomplishes an important critical task of re-reading the fiction of several leading Black American authors in light of the politico-cultural shifts of the past twenty years.
—American Literature
Byerman’s lucid and intelligent study is refreshingly unburdened by a specialized critical vocabulary and is therefore easily accessible to both Afro-American literary critics and interested readers.
—Choice
Provides useful criticism of black writers such as Clarence Major, Leon Forrest and Toni Cade Bambara whose works have generally not received the critical attention they deserve.
—American Studies