Strangers Book - The Human of African American Literature

Lloyd Pratt is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

List of 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

About the author

Lloyd Pratt

Summary

The Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.

Product details

• Authors: Lloyd Pratt
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780812247688
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4768-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies