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Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

Beschreibung

Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Sutton E. Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights against Jim Crow. Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of non-fiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers.

Autor

Tess Chakkalakal (Editor) TESS CHAKKALAKAL is an associate professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. Kenneth W. Warren (Editor) KENNETH W. WARREN is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of What Was African American Literature?, So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism, and Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780820345987
• ISBN-10: 0820345989
• Artikelnr.: 38150653