Darktown Strutters - A Novel

This historical novel about blackface minstrel days provides a brilliant exploration of the complexities of race in America.

About the author

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.

Summary

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".

Product details

• Authors: Wesley Brown, Wesley (Rutgers University Brown, Wesley Jr Brown, W.T. Lhamon Jr, W.T. (Professor of English Lhamon Jr, W.T. Lhamon Jr (Professor of English USA), Wesley Brown (Rutgers University USA), Usa) Wesley Brown (Rutgers University
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2000
• EAN: 9781558492707
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-270-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies