The Cambridge history of African American literature /
"The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Graham, Maryemma. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Cambridge history of African American literature / |c Maryemma Graham, Jerry W. Ward Jr. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 847 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a "The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: Introduction Maryemma Graham and Jerry Ward; Part I. African American Literature from Its Origins to the Twentieth Century: 1. Sounds of a tradition: the souls of Black folk F. Abiola Irele; 2. Early print literature of Africans in America Philip Gould; 3. The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760-1820 Vincent Carretta; 4. Dividing a nation, uniting a people: African American literature and the Abolitionist Movement Stefan Wheelock; 5. African American literature and the slave narrative genre John Ernest; 6. Writing freedom: race, religion, and revolution, 1820-1840 Kimberly Blockett; 7. 'We wish to plead our own cause': independent Antebellum African American literature, 1840-1865 Joycelyn Moody; 8. Racial ideologies in theory and practice: political and cultural nationalism, 1865-1910 Warren Carson; 9. The 'fictions' of race Keith Byerman and Hanna Wallinger; 10. 'We wear the mask': the making of a poet Keith Leonard; 11. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |x African American authors |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |x Intellectual life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans in literature. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Ward, Jerry Washington. | |
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