LEADER 03360oam 2200673I 450 001 9910818007203321 005 20240402034338.0 010 $a1-138-99703-X 010 $a1-315-79037-8 010 $a1-317-73231-6 010 $a1-317-73232-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315790374 035 $a(CKB)2550000001188570 035 $a(EBL)1596787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001113036 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12428899 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113036 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11165590 035 $a(PQKB)10506125 035 $a(OCoLC)874152335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1596787 035 $a(OCoLC)897457598 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001188570 100 $a20180331e20131997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace and gender in the making of an African American literary tradition /$fAimable Twagilimana 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in African American history and culture 300 $aFirst published 1997 by Routledge. 311 $a0-8153-2993-8 311 $a1-306-36641-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aThis book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the book proposes a reading of major African Am 410 0$aStudies in African American History and Culture 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aWomen and literature 676 $a810.9/896073 676 $a810.9896073 700 $aTwagilimana$b Aimable.$01164134 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818007203321 996 $aRace and gender in the making of an African American literary tradition$94039048 997 $aUNINA