Postslavery Literature in the Americas 
Subtitle: Family Portraits in Black and White
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813919775
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; History and criticism; American and Caribbean (Spanish); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; The Americas; American - General; Caribbean & Latin American; American and Caribbean (Spanis; American - African American; Domestic fiction, American; Literature, Comparative; Slavery in literature; American - African American & Black
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.