To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.
- Sundquist, Eric J
- Date:
- 1993
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Physical description
ix, 705 pages ; 25 cm
Series
Contents
pt. 1. Slavery, revolution, renaissance -- Signs of power : Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass -- Melville, Delany, and New World slavery -- pt. 2. The color line -- Mark Train and Homer Plessy -- Charles Chesnutt's cakewalk -- pt. 3. W.E.B. Du Bois : African America and the kingdom of culture -- Swing low : the souls of black folk -- The spell of Africa.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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- American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism
- African AmericansIntellectual life
- African Americans in literature
- Race relations in literature
- Segregation in literature
- Race in literature
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Criticism and interpretation
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Criticism and interpretation
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891Criticism and interpretation
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Criticism and interpretation
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831