Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom

Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom Philadelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. Philadelphia was seen as the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible post-slavery future played out. Otter argues that this setting produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation. Autor: Samuel (Professor of English Otter Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press Rok wydania: 2013 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 408 Wymiary: 23.3 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm Ilustracje: 10 illus. Język: angielski ISBN: 9780199970964