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Bøker i Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Series-serien

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  • - Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris
    av John T. Matthews
    261,-

    While recent historical scholarship about the relation of capitalism to slavery explores the depths at which US ascension was indebted to global plantation slave economies, John Matthews probes how exemplary works of literature represented the determination to deny the open secret of a national atrocity.

  • - The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
    av Trudier Harris
    403,-

    Southern literature is often celebrated for its "told" rather than "written" qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbours, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African Americans who possess the "power of the porch".

  • - African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War
    av Jonathan Daniel Wells
    362 - 562,-

    With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.

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