
Darktown Strutters
A Novel
University of Massachusetts Press
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-55849-270-7 (ISBN)
Description
This historic novel about blackface minstrels explores below the surface. Eric Lott, writing for African American Review, described it as ""A novel of ideas devoted to exploring the complex fate of black and white Americans caught, as ever, in a racial history they can neither surmount nor escape"".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55849-270-7 (9781558492707)
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Persons
WESLEY BROWN is author of the novel Tragic Magic, two plays, and coeditor of two multicultural anthologies. He teaches literature and creative writing at Rutgers University. W. T. LHAMON JR. is professor of English at Florida State University and author of Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop.