Writing America Black
Subtitle: Race Rhetoric and the Public Sphere (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Contributors: Eric Sundquist (Editor); Albert Gelpi (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521564151
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; United States; Journalism; American Journalism; African American Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American literature; American - African American; American - African American & Black; American - General; American literature--African American authors--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Political aspects; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Rhetoric; African American authors; English language; History and criticism
First sentence: More than a decade after severance from Boston's Colored American Magazine (CAM), Pauline Hopkins retained a politically charged philosophy of African-American arts and letters, as evidenced by her pronouncements heralding the publication of New Era Magazine.