Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history

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Label

Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history

Title remainder

rethinking African American literary history

Statement of responsibility

John Ernest

Creator

• Ernest, John
• Ernest, John

Subject

• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Criticism -- United States
• African Americans -- Intellectual life
• African Americans in literature

Language

eng

Summary

Ernest revisits the work of 19th-century writers and activists such as Henry "Box" Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth, demonstrating that their concepts of justice were far more radical than those imagined by most white sympathizers. He offers new principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. His proposal is both a historically informed critique of the field and an invigorating challenge to present and future scholars of African American literatur

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• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.N5

LC item number

E75 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography