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Autore |
Takaki Ronald T. <1939-2009.> |
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Titolo |
Violence in the Black imagination [[electronic resource] ] : essays and documents / / Ronald T. Takaki |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52681-5 |
0-19-802439-8 |
1-4294-0772-7 |
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Edizione |
[Expanded ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
American fiction - African American authors |
American fiction - 19th century |
African Americans in literature |
Violence in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-348). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Not Afraid to Die: Frederick Douglass and Violence; The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass; Part II: War Upon the Whites: Black Rage in the Fiction of Martin Delany; Blake: or, the Huts of America by Martin Delany; Part III: Violence in Fantasy: The Fiction of William Wells Brown; Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States by W. W. Brown; Bibliographical Essay |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection of three short novels about major Afro-American leaders (Frederick Douglass's ""The Heroic Slave"", Martin Delany's ""Blake"" and William Wells Brown's ""Clotelle""), along with critical essays by the editor, explores the issue of black revolutionary violence in modern America. |
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