Shelly Eversley: 1 book
The Real Negro
The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
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
