Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872494138
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Maria Diedrich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195126408
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return.

Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Melissa J. Homestead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521853828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Explores the relationship between copyright laws and women's writing in nineteenth-century America.

Author: William McKee Evans
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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In this boldly interpretive narrative, William McKee Evans tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries-old system of racial oppression. This racial system of interacting practices and ideas first justified black slavery, then, after the Civil War, other forms of coerced black labor and, today, black poverty and unemployment. At three historical moments, a crisis in the larger society opened political space for idealists to challenge the racial system: during the American Revolution, then during the "irrepressible conflict" ending in the Civil War, and, finally, during the Cold War and the colonial liberation movements. Each challenge resulted in an historic advance. But none swept clean. Many African Americans remain segregated in jobless ghettoes with dilapidated schools and dismal prospects in an increasingly polarized class society. Evans sees a new crisis looming in a convergence of environmental disaster, endless wars, and economic collapse, which may again open space for a challenge to the racial system. African Americans, with their memory of their centuries-old struggle against oppressors, appear uniquely placed to play a central role.

Author: James Grant Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Canter Brown Jr.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813055563
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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The publication of Manch in 1880 marked the beginning of Mary Edwards Bryan's rise to prominence as one of nineteenth-century America's best-known writers of mass-market fiction. At a time when women were discouraged from having jobs of their own, she made a name for herself as a thoughtful--and well-paid--editor. Despite her cultivated image as editor of Fashion Bazar and Sunny South, Bryan's early life was fraught with obstacles. In this finely crafted literary biography, Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers examine Bryan's formative years in Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, pairing historical insights with selections of her best writing to illustrate how the obstacles she overcame shaped what she wrote. She grew up on a frontier plantation and later lived through the upheavals of secession and war, disruptive affairs with authors and politicians, the tensions of emancipation, and pervading post-war economic disorder. Despite the oppressive men in her life--her abusive father and husband--as well as unabashed limitations regarding the role of women, Bryan ultimately achieved extraordinary literary accomplishments in New York and Atlanta. A story of celebrity amid scandal, success amid disaster, ambition amid despair, this book reintroduces to the world a courageous and creative talent who yearned to express herself while navigating the restrictive morals and conventions of Victorian society.

Author: Selden Lincoln Whitcomb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: James Grant Wilson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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