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Author:

Langley, April C. E.

Title:

The Black aesthetic unbound : theorizing the dilemma of eighteenth-century African American literature / April C. E. Langley.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiv, 210 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--African influences.
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.
American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
Aesthetics, Black.
Wheatley, Phillis,--1753-1784--Criticism and interpretation.
Equiano, Olaudah,--b. 1745.--Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
Aidoo, Ama Ata,--1942---Dilemma of a ghost.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.

Contents:

The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.

ISBN:

0814291570 (cd-rom)
9780814291573 (cd-rom)
0814210775 (hc : alk. paper)
9780814210772 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)134989663

LCCN:

2007019590

Locations:

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

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)