Postslavery Literatures in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White...

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Publication Name: Postslavery Literatures in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White Type: Textbook Series: New World Studies Item Width: 5.9 in Subject: Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, Semiotics & Theory Format: Trade Paperback Publication Year: 2000 height: 0.6 in Number of Pages: 254 Pages Publisher: University of Virginia Press Book Title: Postslavery Literatures in the Americas : Family Portraits in Bla width: 5.9 in ISBN: 9780813919775 Author: George B. Handley Language: English Item Weight: 13.4 Oz Item Length: 8.9 in Subject Area: Literary Criticism Item Height: 0.6 in

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Postslavery Literatures in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White.... Postslavery Literatures in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White, Paperback by Handley, George B., ISBN 0813919770, ISBN-13 9780813919775, Brand New, Free shipping in the US By offering a critique of current postslavery literary criticism in the Americas as well as exemplary comparative readings of novels by important postslavery writers—including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alejo Carpentier, Jean Rhys, Charles Chesnutt, Cirilo Villaverde, Rosario Ferré, and others—Handley seeks to address the major questions raised by this abundance of postslavery literature and finds meaningful correspondences that begin to show the outlines of a larger tradition of postslavery literature in the Americas. Postslavery Literatures in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White, Paperback by Handley, George B., ISBN 0813919770, ISBN-13 9780813919775, Brand New, Free shipping in the US By offering a critique of current postslavery literary criticism in the Americas as well as exemplary comparative readings of novels by important postslavery writers—including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alejo Carpentier, Jean Rhys, Charles Chesnutt, Cirilo Villaverde, Rosario Ferré, and others—Handley seeks to address the major questions raised by this abundance of postslavery literature and finds meaningful correspondences that begin to show the outlines of a larger tradition of postslavery literature in the Americas.