Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history / John Ernest.

Author/creator Ernest, John
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill, [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxii, 316 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Criticism--United States.

Contents Loosed canons: the race for literary history -- Representing chaos and reading race -- Truth stranger than fiction: African American identity and (auto)biography -- The shortest point between two lines: writing African Americans into American literary history -- Choreographing chaos: African American literature in time and space -- The story at the end of the story: African American literature and the Civil War -- Covenants and communities: the demands of African American literature.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-308) and index.
LCCN 2009019735
ISBN9780807833377 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807833371 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780807859834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807859834 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 E75 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold