Chaotic justice
Subtitle: rethinking African American literary history
By: John Ernest.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833377; 9780807859834
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; Criticism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Loosed canons: the race for literary history; title: Representing chaos and reading race; title: Truth stranger than fiction: African American identity and (auto)biography; title: The shortest point between two lines: writing African Americans into American literary history; title: Choreographing chaos: African American literature in time and space; title: The story at the end of the story: African American literature and the Civil War; title: Covenants and communities: the demands of African American literature.