To wake the nations race in the making of American literature - Sundquist, Eric J.; American Council of Learned Societies (Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.
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Keywords: 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