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Author:
Decker, William Merrill, author.
Title:
Geographies of flight : Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler / William Merrill Decker.
Publisher:
Northwestern University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
294 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Escape in literature.
Space and time in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Escape in literature.
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Signifying Space: Geographies of Domination and Resistance -- Voices from the Global South -- Slave State to Free -- Domestic Uplift and Escape Abroad -- Notes from Underground: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X -- Next Worlds: Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler -- Epilogue Color outside the Lines.
Summary:
"Geographies of Flight explores themes of placement and mobility in the work of Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0810142333
9780810142336
0810142325
9780810142329
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1147940874
LCCN:
2020014715
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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