A Spy in the Enemy's Country
Subtitle: The Emergence of Modern Black Literature
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: March 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780877453222
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Intellectual life; American - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; African Americans in literature; African American authors; African Americans; American literature; History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Part one.; title: Introduction; title: Some motes in the nineteenth-century eye : on literary taste, the perception of difference, and white images of Blacks; title: Differences in perception : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, and Invisible Man; title: The probable and ordinary course of man's experience : antiromance tendencies in the Black literary tradition; title: The experience of power and powerlessness and its expression in the literature; title: The day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact : the gathering of a self; title: Who gave you a master and a mistress? God gave them to me : the role of morality in Black literature; title: A spy in the enemy's country : masking in Black literature; title: Part two.; title: Introduction; title: Charles W. Chesnutt; title: James Weldon Johnson; title: Wallace Thurman; title: Nella Larsen; title: Jean Toomer; title: Conclusion