- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The imaginative fiction of Arna Wendell Bontemps, 1977
- Creator:
- Debnam, Gwendolyn Y.
- Date of Original:
- 1977-01-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This research is intended to explore the literary domain of imaginative fiction as reflected in the writings of Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-73). Comprised of an introduction, three chapters, and two appendices, the study discusses and evaluates the author's three novels and collection of short stories, in terms of their structure, thematic elements, characterization, diction, and verisimilitude , and briefly alludes to his numerous volumes of juvenile literature. The explicated works span the Harlem Renaissance Era to the year of his death, 1973. Chapter I, "The Novelistic Activity of Arna Wendell Bontemps," is devoted to his God Sends Sunday (1931), Black Thunder (1936), and Drums at Dusk (1939), while Chapter II, "The Short Stories of Arna Bontemps," encompasses The Old South: "A Summer Tragedy� and Other Stories of the Thirties, published, postumously, in 1973. The final chapter is entitled "The Literary Achievement of Arna Bontemps," and a brief chronology of his life and a selected listing of his juvenile books also appear in the Appendices. The writer has attempted to establish an interrelationship between the events of Mr. Bontemps' life and career and his literary achievement. In so doing, it was possible to observe the manner in which these developments contributed significantly to his role as an outstanding Afro- American fictionist and a distinguished man of letters
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1977_debnam_gwendolyn_y
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
