Criticism and the color line : desegrating American literary studies / edited by Henry B. Wonham
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| Subjects: | American literature--African American authors--History and criticism American literature--White authors--History and criticism African Americans in literature Race relations in literature Racism in literature |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgments Introduction / Henry B. Wonham 1 Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature / Toni Morrison 16 Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, Race, and Blackface / Eric Lott 30 "Who I Was": Ethnic Identity and American Literary Ethnocentrism / Peter Carafiol 43 Reading Black, White, and Gray in 1968: The Origins of the Contemporary Narrativity of Slavery / Ashraf H. A. Rushdy 63 The Politics of Mourning: Cultural Grief-Work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern / Jeffrey Steele 95 Black and White Voices in an Early African-American Colonization Narrative: Problems of Genre and Emergence / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. 112 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 126 The Remaking of Americans: Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" and African-American Musical Traditions / Carla L. Peterson 140 The Master's Tools Revisited: Foundation Work in Anna Julia Cooper / Todd Vogel 158 The African-American Presence in Stowe's Dred / Robert S. Levine 171 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 191 The Blind Leading the Blind: The Racial Gaze as Plot Dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The Heroic Slave" / Herman Beavers 205 The Ghost of Race: Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern Gothic / Teresa Goddu 230 Interrogating "Whiteness," Complicating "Blackness": Remapping American Culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin 251 Notes on Contributors 291 Index 293 |
| Additional Authors: | Wonham, Henry B., 1960- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 95033062 ISBN: 0813522633 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN: 0813522625 (cloth : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | viii, 299 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 32854934 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0813522633 0813522625 |