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A spy in the enemy's country : the emergence of modern Black literature /

In Part One I examine the literary, historical, and social contexts within which the emerging Black literature took root. Conditions encouraged certain qualities in the literature, qualities which have persisted as racism has persisted: 1) a collective point of view; 2) the mimetic mode; 3) a sensit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petesch, Donald A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Introduction
  • Some motes in the nineteenth-century eye : on literary taste, the perception of difference, and white images of Blacks
  • Differences in perception : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, and Invisible Man
  • The probable and ordinary course of man's experience : antiromance tendencies in the Black literary tradition
  • The experience of power and powerlessness and its expression in the literature
  • The day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact : the gathering of a self
  • Who gave you a master and a mistress? God gave them to me : the role of morality in Black literature
  • A spy in the enemy's country : masking in Black literature
  • Part two. Introduction
  • Charles W. Chesnutt
  • James Weldon Johnson
  • Wallace Thurman
  • Nella Larsen
  • Jean Toomer
  • Conclusion.