A spy in the enemy's country : the emergence of modern Black literature /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
1989.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22112 |
Table of Contents:
- Part one. Introduction
- Some motes in the nineteenth-century eye : on literary taste, the perception of difference, and white images of Blacks
- Differences in perception : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, and Invisible Man
- The probable and ordinary course of man's experience : antiromance tendencies in the Black literary tradition
- The experience of power and powerlessness and its expression in the literature
- The day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact : the gathering of a self
- Who gave you a master and a mistress? God gave them to me : the role of morality in Black literature
- A spy in the enemy's country : masking in Black literature
- Part two. Introduction
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- James Weldon Johnson
- Wallace Thurman
- Nella Larsen
- Jean Toomer
- Conclusion.