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Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition.
This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in African American history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Fictions of (Cultural) Cannibalism; I.A Typology of the African American Text; II. Strategies of Self-Representation: Phillis Wheatley, Equiano and the Language of Power; III. The Thematization and Staging of Knowledge in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; IV. A Home of Their Own: Strategies of Writing by Black Women; V. Mules and Women: Hurston's Poetics of Gender and the Redemption of the Tragic Mulatta; Bibliography; Index.