| Description |
viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Henry B. Wonham -- 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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
African Americans in literature.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism.
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Race in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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Whites -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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| Author |
Wonham, Henry B., 1960-
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| LC no. |
95033062 |
| ISBN |
0813522625 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0813522633 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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