Criticism > Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism > Racism in Literature - Representative Works

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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Toni Cade Bambara
The Black Woman (short stories) 1970

Joanne Brasil
Escape from Billy's Bar-B-Que (novel) 1985

P. M. Carlson
Gravestone (novel) 1993

Kate Chopin
The Awakening (novel) 1899

Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (novel) 1902

Thomas Dixon Jr.
The Leopard's Spots (novel) 1902
The Clansman (novel) 1905

William Faulkner
Light in August (novel) 1932
Absalom, Absalom! (novel) 1936

Allan Gurganus
White People (short stories) 1990

Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not (novel) 1937

William Dean Howells
An Imperative Duty (novella) 1890

Charles S. Johnson
Opportunity [editor] (journal) 1923-1928

Jack London
South Sea Tales (short stories) 1911

Bernard Malamud
The Tenants (novel) 1971

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
   1. Laura Niesen De Aruña (essay date 1989)
   2. Rebecca Aanerud (essay date 1997)
   3. Frances A. Della Cava and Madeline H. Engel (essay date 1999)
4. Criticism: Racism And Literature By And About African Americans
   1. Ralph L. Pearson (essay date spring 1977)
   2. Jerry H. Bryant (essay date 1997)
   3. Steven G. Kellman (essay date 1999)
   4. Margo V. Perkins (essay date 2000)
   5. Karen Overbye (essay date 2001)
5. Criticism: The Theme Of Racism In Literature
   1. Clare R. Goldfarb (essay date summer 1971)
   2. Chinua Achebe (essay date 1977)
   3. Anna Shannon Elfenbein (essay date winter 1987)
   4. André Bleikasten (essay date 1987)
   5. Thomas R. Tietze and Gary Riedl (essay date 1992)
   6. Toni D. Knott (essay date 1997)
   7. Frances W. Kaye (essay date 1999)
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

1. African-American Literature