To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature /

To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.

"This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established this country collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to reestablish a steady course for ourselves ever since. To W...

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Main Author: Sundquist, Eric J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
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, > 1818-1895 > 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.

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Call Number: PS153.N5 S9 1993
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