1st Edition
Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition
By Aimable Twagilimana
Copyright 1997
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
Chapter I A Typology of the African American Text; Chapter II Strategies of Self-Representation: Phillis Wheatley, Equiano and the Language of Power; Chapter III The Thematization and Staging of Knowledge in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Chapter IV A Home of Their Own: Strategies of Writing by Black Women; Chapter V Mules and Women: Hurston’s Poetics of Gender and the Redemption of the Tragic Mulatta;
Biography
Aimable Twagilimana
"...an important survey..." -- he Midwest Book Review
