The Strangers Book : : The Human of African American Literature / / Lloyd Pratt.
The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Acknowledgments