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Criticism and the color line : desegrating American literary studies / edited by Henry B. Wonham. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--White authors--History and criticism.
- African Americans in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- White people--United States--Intellectual life.
- White people.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 299 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1996.
- Contents:
- Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature / Toni Morrison
- Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, race, and blackface / Eric Lott
- "Who I was": ethnic identity and American literary ethnocentrism / Peter Carafiol
- Reading black, white, and gray in 1968: the origins of the contemporary narrativity of slavery / Ashraf H.A Rushdy
- The politics of mourning: cultural grief-work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern / Jeffrey Steele
- Black and white voices in an early African-American colonization narrative: problems of genre and emergence / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
- Howells, Du Bois, and the effect of "common-sense": race, realism, and nervousness in An imperative duty and The souls of black folk / Henry B. Wonham
- The remaking of Americans: Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" and African-American musical traditions / Carla L. Peterson
- The master's tools revisited: foundation work in Anna Julia Cooper / Todd Vogel
- The African-American presence in Stowe's Dred / Robert S. Levine
- Sentimental abolition in Douglass's decade: revision, erotic conversion, and the politics of witnessing in "The heroic slave" and My bondage and my freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman
- The blind leading the blind: the racial gaze as plot dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The heroic slave" / Herman Beavers
- The ghost of race: Edgar Allan Poe and the southern gothic / Teresa Goddu
- Interrogating "whiteness," complicating "blackness": remapping American culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-6661-4
- 0-585-11384-X
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