Tag: Gene Andrew Jarrett

  • The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies

  • Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature New York University Press August 2011 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814743386 Paper ISBN: 9780814743393 Gene Andrew Jarrett, Professor of English and African American Studies Boston University The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers,…

  • “Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed”: Minstrel Realism and William Dean Howells Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 59, Number 4 (March 2005) pages 494-525 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2005.59.4.494 Gene Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University In the early months of 1896, James A. Herne returned to his hotel in Toledo, Ohio, the city where he was directing…

  • He speaks in your voice: American. arts & sciences Boston College Fall 2009 Tricia Brick Gene Andrew Jarrett began his 2006 book Deans and Truants with a deceptively simple question: What is African American literature? The term, after all, refers not merely to the subject matter of the works it describes but to literature that…

  • James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washingon Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Presiding Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University Speakers 1. “Music, Race,…