Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in African American History and Culture
ISBN-10
0815329938
ISBN-13
9780815329930
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1997
Print length
202 Pages
Weight
408 grams
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesAnthropology
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The acts of violence perpetrated on African slaves brought to America resulted in an erasure of their identity, history, and memory. Early African American writers created a black literary and cultural identity by retrieving, recording, and interpreting fragments of the African culture that survive
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 book proposes a reading of major African American writers including Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
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