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The Strangers Book : The Human of African American Literature.

Pratt, Lloyd.

The Strangers Book : The Human of African American Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (199 pages) - Haney Foundation Series . - Haney Foundation Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Print and the Human -- Chapter 1. The Making of Self-Evidence -- Chapter 2. Frederick Douglass's Stranger-With-Thee -- Chapter 3. Les Apôtres de la Littérature and Les Cenelles -- Chapter 4. The Abundant Black Past -- Chapter 5. How to Read a Strangers Book -- Epilogue. Stranger Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

The Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.

9780812291995


American literature-African American authors-History and criticism.
American literature-19th century-History and criticism.
African Americans-Race identity-History-19th century.
Strangers in literature.
Black people in literature.
Human beings in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5P73 2016

810.9/896073

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