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050 00 $aPS153.N5$bS9 1993
100 1 $aSundquist, Eric J.
245 10 $aTo wake the nations :$brace in the making of American literature /$cEric J. Sundquist.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c1993.
300 $aix, 705 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 627-691) and index.
505 0 $apt. 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.
520 1 $a"This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established this country collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to reestablish a steady course for ourselves ever since. To Wake the Nations is urgent and rousing: we have integrated our buses, schools, and factories, but not the canon of American literature. That is the task Eric Sundquist has assumed in a book that ranges from politics to literature, from Uncle Remus to African American spirituals. But the hallmark of this volume is a sweeping reevaluation of the glory years of American literature - from 1830 to 1930 - that shows how white literature and black literature form a single interwoven tradition." "By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, Sundquist reconstructs the main lines of American literary tradition from the decades before the Civil War through the early twentieth century. An opening discussion of Nat Turner's "Confessions," recorded by a white man, Thomas Gray, establishes a paradigm for the complexity of meanings that Sundquist uncovers in American literary texts. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's autobiographical books, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Martin Delany's novel Blake; or the Huts of America, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Charles Chesnutt's fiction, and W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Darkwater, Sundquist considers each text against a rich background of history, law, literature, politics, religion, folklore, music, and dance. These readings lead to insights into components of the culture at large: slavery as it intersected with postcolonial revolutionary ideology; literary representations of the legal and political foundations of segregation; and the transformation of elements of African and antebellum folk consciousness into the public forms of American literature."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aRace relations in literature.
650 0 $aSegregation in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 4 $aAfro americanos$xVida intelectual.
650 4 $aAfro americanos en la literatura.
650 4 $aRelaciones raciales en la literatura.
650 4 $aSegregación en la literatura.
650 17 $aAmerikaans.$2gtt.
650 17 $aLetterkunde.$2gtt.
650 17 $aNegers.$2gtt.
650 6 $aLittérature américaine$xAuteurs noirs américains$xHistoire et critique.
650 6 $aNoirs américains$xVie intellectuelle.
650 6 $aNoirs américains dans la littérature.
650 6 $aRelations raciales dans la littérature.
650 6 $aSégrégation dans la littérature.
650 07 $aLiteratur.$2swd.
650 07 $aMultikulturelle Gesellschaft.$2swd.
650 07 $aGeschichte (1830-1930)$2swd.
650 07 $aRassenbeziehung.$2swd.
651 7 $aUSA.$2swd.
651 7 $aSchwarze.$2swd.
653 0 $aEnglish literature$aBy$aBlack persons.
653 0 $aUnited States.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSundquist, Eric J.$tTo wake the nations.$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993$w(OCoLC)645828520.
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