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Beetlecreek

Beetlecreek

by William Demby

1950African American teenage boysCity and town lifeFictionMale friendshipRace relations
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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.

Themes & subjects

African American teenage boysCity and town lifeFictionMale friendshipRace relationsWhite Men
First published 1950

Setting

West Virginia

Author

William Demby

First published

1950

Pages

223

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

ISBN

9781283031158

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