To wake the nations race in the making of American literature

Author:

Sundquist, Eric J

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993

Subject:

Du Bois, W. E. B. - (William Edward Burghardt), - 1868-1963 - Criticism and interpretation
Twain, Mark, - 1835-1910 - Criticism and interpretation
Melville, Herman, - 1819-1891 - Criticism and interpretation
Douglass, Frederick, - 1817?-1895 - Criticism and interpretation
Turner, Nat, - 1800?-1831
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
African Americans - Intellectual life
African Americans in literature
Race relations in literature
Segregation in literature
Race in literature

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Description:

ix, 705 p. ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index

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

Call Number:

PS153.N5 (INTERNET)