Chaotic Justice : Rethinking African American Literary History.

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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 offe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ernest, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Geschichte 1800-1900.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Criticism > United States.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Critique > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Intellectual life
American literature > African American authors
Criticism
Literatur
United States
USA
Schwärze
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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