Reviews for The Negro novel in America

The average rating for The Negro novel in America based on 1 review is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-07-18 00:00:00 Calvin Hicks Hard to review this nicely written artifact, first synoptic (Phylon says) overview of Af Am novelistic prose works. Certes, it is opinionated; voice is part of its charms, the near-bloggy tone it uses, though it was grafted from a diss. A good deal of airtime is spent aligning postwar prose in terms of the "protest" novel. New Criticism is interestingly used--the symbolism of the objective correlative, for instance, in Wright. There is a sociological backbone, and one knows straightaway where Bone's evaluations lie. Reviewers don't seem to expect the sometime irony of his tone--interpreting it as empiricism, and thus fact. Bone has little tolerance for feminized novels of bourgeois decadance (e.g. Jessie Fauset), but also is very cautious about other kinds of aesthetic autonomy. His other writings are on Washington Irving, elsewhere, and are quite interesting on history and inner life...