Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history /

Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ernest, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Criticism > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Loosed canons: the race for literary history
  • Representing chaos and reading race
  • Truth stranger than fiction: African American identity and (auto)biography
  • The shortest point between two lines: writing African Americans into American literary history
  • Choreographing chaos: African American literature in time and space
  • The story at the end of the story: African American literature and the Civil War
  • Covenants and communities: the demands of African American literature.