On freedom and the will to adorn : the art of the African American essay /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wall, Cheryl A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Subjects:	African American authors > History and criticism. Essayists, American. Essay.

Table of Contents:

Prologue. Moving from the margins
On freedom and the will to adorn: the African American essay
Voices of thunder: nineteenth-century black oratory and the development of the African American essay
On art and such: debating aesthetics during the Harlem Renaissance
Stranger at home: James Baldwin on what it means to be an American
The mystery of American identity: Ralph Ellison
On women, rights, and writing: June Jordan and Alice Walker
Epilogue. Essaying in the digital age.