Beyond Douglass
Subtitle: new perspectives on early African-American literature
By: edited by Michael J. Drexler and Ed White.
Contributors: Drexler, Michael J.; White, Ed, 1965-
Series: Aperçus
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses; UNKNO
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780838757116
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- African American authors -- Study and teaching; American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism; American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism; Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- African American authors; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Description: Essays dealing with early African American literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Canon loading / Michael J. Drexler and Ed White; title: Self-encounters : two eighteenth-century memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem / Katherine Faull; title: The eighteenth-century Black wor(l)d and early writers' biblical literacy / April Langley; title: Anglo-American continuities of civic and religious thought in the institutional world of early Black writing / Phillip M. Richards; title: Early African-American literature? / Vincent Carretta; title: Early Black Atlantic writing and the cultures of enlightenment / Philip Gould; title: Aspirant citizenship / John Saillant; title: Antebellum African American texts beyond slavery and race / Xiomara Santamarina; title: Monuments and careers : teaching William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and their contemporaries / Robert S. Levine.