Beyond Douglass : new perspectives on early African-American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Drexler, Michael J., White, Ed, 1965-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2008]
Series:	Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > Study and teaching. American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism. American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism. Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism. Autobiography > African American authors. African Americans > Intellectual life > 18th century. African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Canon loading / Michael J. Drexler and Ed White
Self-encounters : two eighteenth-century memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem / Katherine Faull
The eighteenth-century Black wor(l)d and early writers' biblical literacy / April Langley
Anglo-American continuities of civic and religious thought in the institutional world of early Black writing / Phillip M. Richards
Early African-American literature? / Vincent Carretta
Early Black Atlantic writing and the cultures of enlightenment / Philip Gould
Aspirant citizenship / John Saillant
Antebellum African American texts beyond slavery and race / Xiomara Santamarina
Monuments and careers : teaching William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and their contemporaries / Robert S. Levine.