Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition.

This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who...

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Main Author: Twagilimana, Aimable
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Series:Studies in African American history and culture.
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