Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century

Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10
3825818926
ISBN-13
9783825818920
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
207
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
LIT Verlag Münster
Authors
John Cullen Gruesser, Hanna Wallinger

Description

The essays in this volume explore the loopholes and retreats employed and exploited by African American polemicists, poets, novelists, slave narrators, playwrights, short story writers, essayists, editors, educators, historians, clubwomen, and autobiographers during the nineteenth century. These exciting contributions use historicist, comparative, transnational, literary historical, cultural studies, and Foucauldian perspectives to examine how apparent weakness was turned into strength, defensiveness into offensiveness, and the machinery of oppression into the keys to liberation.

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