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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456373003321

Autore

Ernest John

Titolo

Chaotic justice [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking African American literary history / / John Ernest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009

ISBN

1-4696-0507-4

0-8078-9850-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans - Intellectual life

African Americans in literature

Criticism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Loosed canons: the race for literary history -- Representing chaos and reading race -- Truth stranger than fiction: African American identity and (auto)biography -- The shortest point between two lines: writing African Americans into American literary history -- Choreographing chaos: African American literature in time and space -- The story at the end of the story: African American literature and the Civil War -- Covenants and communities: the demands of African American literature.

Sommario/riassunto

Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History