Sundquist, Eric J.

To wake the nations race in the making of American literature / [electronic resource] : Eric J. Sundquist. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993. - ix, 705 p. ; 25 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.

pt. 1. Slavery, revolution, renaissance -- Signs of power : Nat Turn er and Frederick Douglass -- Melville, Delany, and New World slavery -- pt. 2. The color line -- Mark Train and Homer Plessy -- Charles Chesnu tt's cakewalk -- pt. 3. W.E.B. Du Bois : African America and the kingdo m of culture -- Swing low : the souls of black folk -- The spell of Afr ica.


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University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2014.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 -- Cri ticism and interpretation.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.


American literature-- African American authors-- History and criti cism.
African Americans-- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Segregation in literature.
Race in literature.