WE WEAR THE MASK by Rafia Zafar ( 9780231080941 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

WE WEAR THE MASK
AFRICAN AMERICANS WRITE AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1760-1870

By:

Rafia Zafar

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0231080948

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9780231080941

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Publisher:

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 October, 1997

Pages:

264

Description:

From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, this text uncovers the strategies black writers used to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to a white audience.

Synopsis:

Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Alongside these pioneers of black American literature Zafar juxtaposes some familiar European American Writers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley's implicit engagements with other colonial era poets, and ending with the ultimately tragic success story of Elizabeth Keckley, ex-slave, seamstress, and confidante to a First Lady, black authors employed virtually every dominant literary genre while cannily manipulating the nature of their presence.

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