The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865 /
The Origins of African American Literature is an invaluable revelation of the emergence and sources of the specifically African American literary tradition and the forces that helped shape it.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia
2001.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wrq7r |
Table of Contents:
- Background to an African American literature, 1680-1760.
- The age of revolution, 1760-1800.
- Literary identity in the new nation, 1800-1816.
- The era of colonization, 1816-1828.
- The Liberator and the shaping of African American tradition, 1829-1832.
- Literary expression in the age of abolitionism, 1833-1849.
- African American voices in the American crisis, 1850-1861.
- The war for emancipation and beyond.