Postslavery Literature in the Americas 
Subtitle: Family Portraits in Black and White
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813919768
Subjects: Black studies; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Slavery & emancipation; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Comparative Literature; American Literature (Specific Aspects); Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; The Americas; Domestic fiction, American; Caribbean & Latin American; Slavery in literature; American - African American & Black; American - General; American and Caribbean (Spanis; American and Caribbean (Spanish); History and criticism; Literature, Comparative
First sentence: THIS BOOK is a response to a series of intellectual impasses I experienced starting when I first sat down with the two advisers of my undergraduate honors thesis.