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.
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