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Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Stepto is Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative . Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father". It features the elegant readings that shed light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass' "Narrative" to W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk" to Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon".

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• Authors: Robert B. Stepto
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2010
• EAN: 9780674050969
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05096-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, african american, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General