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Author Ernest, John.

Title Chaotic Justice : Rethinking African American Literary History.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
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Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Loosed Canons: The Race for Literary History; CHAPTER ONE: Representing Chaos and Reading Race; CHAPTER TWO: Truth Stranger than Fiction: African American Identity and (Auto) Biography; CHAPTER THREE: The Shortest Point between Two Lines: Writing African Americans into American Literary History; CHAPTER FOUR: Choreographing Chaos: African American Literature in Time and Space; CHAPTER FIVE: The Story at the End of the Story: African American Literature and the Civil War; CONCLUSION: Covenants and Communities: The Demands of African American Literature.
NotesBibliography; Index.
Summary Ernest revisits the work of 19th-century writers and activists such as Henry "Box" Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth, demonstrating that their concepts of justice were far more radical than those imagined by most white sympathizers. He offers new principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. His proposal is both a historically informed critique of the field and an invigorating challenge to present and future scholars of African American literatur.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Criticism -- United States.
Criticism.
United States.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9780807833377
ISBN 9780807898505 (electronic book)
0807898503 (electronic book)
9781469605074 (electronic book)
1469605074 (electronic book)
9780807833377 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807859834 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807833371 (alkaline paper)
0807859834 (paperback ; alkaline paper)