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Author:

Ernest, John.

Title:

Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history / John Ernest.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 316 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Criticism--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-308) and index.

Contents:

Loosed canons: the race for literary history -- Representing chaos and reading race -- Truth stranger than fiction: African American identity and (auto)biography -- The shortest point between two lines: writing African Americans into American literary history -- Choreographing chaos: African American literature in time and space -- The story at the end of the story: African American literature and the Civil War -- Covenants and communities: the demands of African American literature.

ISBN:

0807859834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807859834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807833371 (alk. paper)
9780807833377 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317929521

LCCN:

2009019735

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)