03360oam 2200673I 450 991081800720332120240402034338.01-138-99703-X1-315-79037-81-317-73231-61-317-73232-410.4324/9781315790374(CKB)2550000001188570(EBL)1596787(SSID)ssj0001113036(PQKBManifestationID)12428899(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113036(PQKBWorkID)11165590(PQKB)10506125(OCoLC)874152335(MiAaPQ)EBC1596787(OCoLC)897457598(EXLCZ)99255000000118857020180331e20131997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace and gender in the making of an African American literary tradition /Aimable Twagilimana1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (202 p.)Studies in African American history and cultureFirst published 1997 by Routledge.0-8153-2993-8 1-306-36641-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 book proposes a reading of major African AmStudies in African American History and CultureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American womenIntellectual lifeWomen and literatureUnited StatesAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.African American womenIntellectual life.Women and literature810.9/896073810.9896073Twagilimana Aimable.1164134MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818007203321Race and gender in the making of an African American literary tradition4039048UNINA