The Walls of Jericho

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The Walls of Jericho

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African American literature
Novelists
Fisher’s The Walls of Jericho (1928) won critical applause because of the novel’s balanced satire of class and color prejudice among Black New Yorkers. In 1932 Fisher brought out The Conjure Man Dies, often referred to as the first African American detective novel. Thurman’s The Blacker…
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Fisher’s The Walls of Jericho (1928) won critical applause because of the novel’s balanced satire of class and color prejudice among Black New Yorkers. In 1932 Fisher brought out The Conjure Man Dies, often referred to as the first African American detective novel. Thurman’s The Blacker…
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Rudolph Fisher
…Fisher published his first novel, The Walls of Jericho, inspired by a friend’s challenge that he write a novel treating sympathetically both the upper and lower classes of Black Harlem. Humorous and gently satirical, the novel presents a hopeful vision that African American men can get ahead in the urban…
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…Fisher published his first novel, The Walls of Jericho, inspired by a friend’s challenge that he write a novel treating sympathetically both the upper and lower classes of Black Harlem. Humorous and gently satirical, the novel presents a hopeful vision that African American men can get ahead in the urban…
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