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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524686303321

Autore

Langley April C. E

Titolo

The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / / April C.E. Langley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008

©2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 210 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

Aesthetics, Black

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

American literature - Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 - History and criticism

American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism

American literature - African influences

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.