POINTS FOR ANY DISCUSSION OF
FRANK YERBY'S
WORKS

 

  • The four themes Yerby used as the basis of his novels: [1.] the unsolvable problem of evil; [2.] the compensatory behavioral mechanism of prejudice and hate; [3.] man's projection of himself through his relationship with God; and [4.] the eternal warfare between the sexes.
  • The one theme Yerby claimed to have shunned: the question of man's own immortality.
  • The different views of Yerby as a novelist are: [1.] a costume novelist; [2.] a debunker of historical myths and [3.] a narrator of the Black experience within the context of western culture.
  • The music found in Yerby's novels are the foundation of a symphony

 
 

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