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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. |
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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. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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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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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Criticism -- United States.
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Criticism. |
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United States. |
Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-1900 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780807833377 |
ISBN |
9780807898505 (electronic book) |
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0807898503 (electronic book) |
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9781469605074 (electronic book) |
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1469605074 (electronic book) |
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9780807833377 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807859834 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807833371 (alkaline paper) |
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0807859834 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |