How to Read African American Literature : : Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation / / Aida Levy-Hussen.
How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s a...
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