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Author : Hollis Robbins
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis In Search Of Hannah Crafts by : Hollis Robbins
Download or read book In Search Of Hannah Crafts written by Hollis Robbins. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Hannah Crafts
Release : 2002-04-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 644/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Bondwoman's Narrative by : Hannah Crafts
Download or read book The Bondwoman's Narrative written by Hannah Crafts. This book was released on 2002-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
Author : Henry Louis Gates
Release : 2004-12-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Search of Hannah Crafts by : Henry Louis Gates
Download or read book In Search of Hannah Crafts written by Henry Louis Gates. This book was released on 2004-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel written by a black women anywhere. The Bondwoman's Narrative was published in 2002. In Search of Hannah Crafts now brings together twenty-two authorities on African-American studies to examine such issues as authenticity, and the history and criticism of this unique novel, including Nina Baym, Jean Fagan Yellin, William Andrews, Lawrence Buell, Karen Sanchez-Eppler and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin.The Bondwoman's Narrative will take its place in the African-American canon, and In Search of Hannah Crafts is the book that scholars and students of African-American Studies, of women writers, and of slavery, need to have to understand this unprecedented historical and literary event.
Author : Claudia Stokes
Release : 2021-12-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 531/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Style by : Claudia Stokes
Download or read book Old Style written by Claudia Stokes. This book was released on 2021-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Claudia Stokes reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and traditionalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped credential marginalized writers.
Author : Robert S. Levine
Release : 2009-06-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 889/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dislocating Race and Nation by : Robert S. Levine
Download or read book Dislocating Race and Nation written by Robert S. Levine. This book was released on 2009-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and African American writers. Conflict and uncertainty, not consensus, Levine argues, helped define American literary nationalism during this period. Levine emphasizes the centrality of both inter- and intra-American conflict in his analysis of four illuminating "episodes" of literary responses to questions of U.S. racial nationalism and imperialism. He examines Charles Brockden Brown and the Louisiana Purchase; David Walker and the debates on the Missouri Compromise; Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Hannah Crafts and the blood-based literary nationalism and expansionism of the mid-nineteenth century; and Frederick Douglass and his approximately forty-year interest in Haiti. Levine offers critiques of recent developments in whiteness and imperialism studies, arguing that a renewed attention to the place of contingency in American literary history helps us to better understand and learn from writers trying to make sense of their own historical moments.
