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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race : Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel /

"In Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel, Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus argues that, in the years after Reconstruction, black and white writers alike adopted literary strategies that blended realism and romance to address the horrors endured by...

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Autor principal: Daniels-Rauterkus, Melissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Race, Realism, and the Problem of Literary Classification
  • The Long Hangover: Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Ghosts of Slavery
  • Reimagining the Tragic Mulatta in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
  • Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars
  • The Limits of Literary Realism: Pauline Hopkins's Postracial Fantasy in Of One Blood
  • Epilogue: Rethinking Blackness.