Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780815329930 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 202 str.

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Opis

The acts of violence perpetrated on African slaves brought to America resulted in an erasure of their identity, history, and memory. Early African American writers created a black literary and cultural identity by retrieving, recording, and interpreting fragments of the African culture that survived

Recenzje

"...an important survey..." -- he Midwest Book Review

Spis treści

Chapter I A Typology of the African American Text; Chapter II Strategies of Self-Representation: Phillis Wheatley, Equiano and the Language of Power; Chapter III The Thematization and Staging of Knowledge in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Chapter IV A Home of Their Own: Strategies of Writing by Black Women; Chapter V Mules and Women: Hurston’s Poetics of Gender and the Redemption of the Tragic Mulatta;

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