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UNINA9910818007203321 |
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Autore |
Twagilimana Aimable |
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Titolo |
Race and gender in the making of an African American literary tradition / / Aimable Twagilimana |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-138-99703-X |
1-315-79037-8 |
1-317-73231-6 |
1-317-73232-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in African American history and culture |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
African American women - Intellectual life |
Women and literature - United States |
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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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First published 1997 by Routledge. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Fictions of (Cultural) Cannibalism; I. A Typology of the African American Text; II. Strategies of Self-Representation: Phillis Wheatley, Equiano and the Language of Power; III. The Thematization and Staging of Knowledge in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; IV. A Home of Their Own: Strategies of Writing by Black Women; V. Mules and Women: Hurston's Poetics of Gender and the Redemption of the Tragic Mulatta; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the |
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