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First published in 1950, Beetlecreek stands as a moving condemnation of provincialism and fundamentalism. Both a critique of racial hypocrisy and a new direction for the African American novel, it occupies fresh territory that is neither the ghetto realism of Richard Wright nor the ironic modernism of Ralph Ellison.
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4 editions- Other · English · 2010University Press of Mississippi · 236 pages · 9781617030864
- Other · English · 1998University Press of Mississippi · 236 pages · 9781578061068
- Other · English · 1998University Press of Mississippi · 9781283031158
- Other · English · 1972Chatham Bookseller · 223 pages · 9780911860122
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