To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature,

by Eric J. Sundquist

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This powerful book argues that White culture in America does not exist apart from Black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established America collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to re-establish a steady course for ourselves ever since. To Wake the Nations is urgent and rousing: we have integrated our buses, schools, and factories, but not the canon of American literature. That is the task Eric Sundquist...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674893301

ISBN13:9780674893306

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:705 Pages

Weight:2.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Discrimination & Racism History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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