We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870Columbia University Press, 1997 - 249 páginas Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley and John Marrant, who created popular literature by using formulas like that of the Puritan narrative, and ending with the subversive work of Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley, Zafar argues that black writers tried every literary strategy--from mimicry and masking to invisibility--as a means of promoting empathy and as a way of transcending the attitudes of mainstream America. By the end of Reconstruction, black authors had paved the way for a distinctive African American literature. |
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... Scenes at the White House and Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life 151 Conclusion : The Beginning of African American Literature 185 Notes Bibliography Index 191 223 243 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ว How many scholars can say that ...
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Contenido
Wheatley Joel Barlow and Ann Eliza Bleecker | 15 |
African Americans | 41 |
The Narratives | 67 |
It is natural to believe in great men | 89 |
The Blackwoman in the Attic | 117 |
Elizabeth | 151 |
American Literature | 185 |
Notes | 191 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870 Rafia Zafar Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |