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020			_a9781405188623
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050			_aPS 153.N5 .C66 2010
245		2	_aA companion to African American literature / _cedited by Gene Andrew Jarrett.
260			_a[Place of publication not identifed] : _bBlackwell Publishers, _cc2010
300			_axiii, 467 pages ;
365			_bUSD175.58
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPart I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865 -- Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940 -- Part III: Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940-Present .
520			_aIt studies the canons and traditions of African American literature, even as it unsettles their major assumptions and representations. On the other hand, this collection of essays, written by todays preeminent and rising scholars, examiners most of the well known texts, contexts, genres forms, themes, authors and interpretations of the literature authored by the African dispora in America.
650			_aAFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
700			_aGene Andrew Jarrett. _eeditor
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