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1 online resource (viii, 299 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature / Toni Morrison -- Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, race, and blackface / Eric Lott -- "Who I was": ethnic identity and American literary ethnocentrism / Peter Carafiol -- Reading black, white, and gray in 1968: the origins of the contemporary narrativity of slavery / Ashraf H.A Rushdy -- The politics of mourning: cultural grief-work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern / Jeffrey Steele -- Black and white voices in an early African-American colonization narrative: problems of genre and emergence / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. -- Howells, Du Bois, and the effect of "common-sense": race, realism, and nervousness in An imperative duty and The souls of black folk / Henry B. Wonham -- The remaking of Americans: Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" and African-American musical traditions / Carla L. Peterson -- The master's tools revisited: foundation work in Anna Julia Cooper / Todd Vogel -- The African-American presence in Stowe's Dred / Robert S. Levine -- Sentimental abolition in Douglass's decade: revision, erotic conversion, and the politics of witnessing in "The heroic slave" and My bondage and my freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- The blind leading the blind: the racial gaze as plot dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The heroic slave" / Herman Beavers -- The ghost of race: Edgar Allan Poe and the southern gothic / Teresa Goddu -- Interrogating "whiteness," complicating "blackness": remapping American culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism.
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African Americans in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
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American literature -- African American authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807114
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American literature -- White authors.
(OCoLC)fst01424513
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Race relations in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086563
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Racism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086655
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wonham, Henry B., 1960-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Criticism and the color line. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996 0813522625 (DLC) 95033062 (OCoLC)32854934 |
| ISBN |
058511384X (electronic bk.) |
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9780585113845 (electronic bk.) |
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