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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960348503321

Autore

Whitfield James Monroe <1822-1871.>

Titolo

The works of James M. Whitfield : America and other writings by a nineteenth-century African American poet / / edited by Robert S. Levine & Ivy G. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

979-88-908845-3-4

979-88-9313-387-5

1-4696-0350-0

0-8078-7781-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WhitfieldJames Monroe <1822-1871.>

LevineRobert S <1953-> (Robert Steven)

WilsonIvy G

Disciplina

818/.309

Soggetti

African Americans

American poetry - African American authors

American poetry - 19th century

African Americans - Intellectual life - 19th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. America -- pt. 2. Black nationalism and emigration -- pt. 3. Poems from California.

Sommario/riassunto

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States.Whitfield's works, including poems from his celebrated America and Other Poems (1853), were printed in influential journals and newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass's The North Star. A champion of the black emigration movement during the 1850's, Whitfield was embraced by African Americans