| Author | Sundquist, Eric J.
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| Title | To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.
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| Published | Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
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| Description | ix, 705 p. ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-674-89330-1 (acid-free paper) : $29.95 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: 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.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
English literature; By; Black persons
Race relations in literature.
Segregation in literature.
United States
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| LC Card Number | 92-34164 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: PS 153 N5 S958
mq31776: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 24657] |
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