Blackness and Value
Subtitle: Seeing Double (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521621038
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Intellectual life; American literature; Literature And Society; African American Literature; Ethnic Issues; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Ethnic Studies - General; American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Theory, etc; African American authors; American - African American; United States; 20th century; African Americans; History; History and criticism
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