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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
1989.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.