Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

About the author

Roland Leander Williams is Chair and Professor of English at Temple University. He is the author of Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903–2003 and African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Roland Leander Williams, Williams Roland Leander
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781438489469
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8946-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Suny Multiethnic Literatures; SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Literature: history and criticism, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people