This study is an identification and review of Southern black writers who published literary works about the South during the years 1829-1953. The writers whose works are discussed either were born in or spent a number of years in the South--the former Confederate States of America and Maryland, Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and West Virginia. / The discussion is not an analysis of how well the authors wrote or how well they were received; rather it is a discussion of how they viewed the South and of their social analyses that focused on the pain and beauty which they saw inherent in the South. In these analyses of the pain and the beauty, the writers make use of the comic and the tragic. / The study is presented in four chapters: From Servitude of Freedom, 1829 to 1865; Reconstruction to 1912; From Migration to Depression, 1913-1928; and Oppressed, Depressed, Suppressed, but Determined, 1929-1953. Each chapter begins with a date that is historically significant to blacks in the South. The writers are discussed in chronological order of first publication within each given chapter. / The purpose of this study is to introduce the writers and their works and to emphasize the importance of studying such black writers in order to acquire a more complete understanding of the South as an integral facet of American society and its literature. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-08, Section: A, page: 3600. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74593 |
| Contributors | FOSTER, MAMIE MARIE BOOTH., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 294 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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