To wake the nations [[electronic resource] ] : race in the making of American literature / / Eric J. Sundquist

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247999003316
• Autore: Sundquist Eric J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 705 p. ; ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073
• Soggetti: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; African Americans - Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; Race relations in literature; Segregation in literature; Race in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Slavery, revolution, renaissance -- Signs of power : Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass -- Melville, Delany, and New World slavery -- pt. 2. The color line -- Mark Train and Homer Plessy -- Charles Chesnutt's cakewalk -- pt. 3. W.E.B. Du Bois : African America and the kingdom of culture -- Swing low : the souls of black folk -- The spell of Africa.