The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature /

The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature /

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During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories, ideas, beliefs, and practices would forever reshape its history and cultures. April C.E. Langley's The Black Aesthetic Unbound exposes the dilemma of the literal, metaphorica...

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Main Author: Langley, April C. E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784.
Aidoo, Ama Ata, > 1942- > Dilemma of a ghost.
Equiano, Olaudah, > 1745-1797. > Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784 > Criticism and interpretation.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs noirs.
Ästhetik
Schwarze
Literatur
American literature > Revolutionary period (United States)
American literature > Colonial period.
American literature > African influences.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature.
Aesthetics, Black.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Esthetique noire.
Litterature americaine > 1783-1850 > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 1775-1783 (Periode revolutionnaire) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Influence africaine.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (Equiano, Olaudah)
Schwarze.
USA.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings
  • What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing
  • Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes
  • Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.

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