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Author:

Sundquist, Eric J.

Title:

To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.

Publisher:

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

ix, 705 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Segregation in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. Slavery, revolution, renaissance -- Signs of power : Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass -- Melville, Delany, and New World slavery -- pt. 2. The color line -- Mark Train and Homer Plessy -- Charles Chesnutt's cakewalk -- pt. 3. W.E.B. Du Bois : African America and the kingdom of culture -- Swing low : the souls of black folk -- The spell of Africa.

ISBN:

9780674893306 (acid-free paper)
0674893301 (acid-free paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26721398

LCCN:

92034164

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)