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Author:

Hager, Christopher, 1974-

Title:

Word by word : emancipation and the act of writing / Christopher Hager.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

311 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Authors, American--19th century--Political and social views.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African American authors--Political and social views.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
Literature and society--United States.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans in literature.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages.

ISBN:

0674067487 (ebook)
9780674067486 (ebook)
0674059867 (hbk.)
9780674059863 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2012016934

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)