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Black Atlas : Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature /

Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth centuy, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Madera, Judith Irwin, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth centuy, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera argues that spatial reconfiguation was a critical concern for the era's black writers, and she also demonstrates how the possibility for new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting of space. Madera reveals.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (310 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780822375951