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

Sundquist, Eric J.
1993
810.9896073 S957t
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Title
To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.
Author
Sundquist, Eric J.
ISBN
0674893301 (acid-free paper) :
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Language
English
Description
ix, 705 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
810.9896073 S957t
System Control No.
(OCoLC)26721398
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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