The primate's dream : literature, race, and ethnicity in America /

The primate's dream : literature, race, and ethnicity in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuttleton, James W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [1999]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Table of Contents:
  • The mind of a Black abolitionist : Frederick Douglass
  • The mind of a White abolitionist : Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • An uncertain abolitionist : Lincoln in fact and fiction
  • Lincoln's generals : Grant and Sherman in their memoirs
  • Twain's Huck : fresh tears and race flapdoodle
  • Pride and shame : the winning of the West
  • Ethnic blues and all that multicultural jazz
  • Loathing western civilization : Christianity and race in America
  • Countee Cullen at "The Heights"
  • The Negro writer as spokesman (1969)
  • The problematic texts of Richard Wright
  • Derek Walcott and the vision of Homeric grandeur
  • Ralph Ellison : indivisible man.