Chaotic Justice - Rethinking African American Literary History (Paperback, New edition)

What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship. With this book, he creates a new and just retelling of African American literary history that neither ignores nor transcends racial history. Ernest revisits the work of nineteenth-century writers and activists such as Henry 'Box' Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth, demonstrating that their concepts of justice were far more radical than those imagined by most white sympathizers. He sheds light on the process of reading, publishing, studying, and historicizing this work during the twentieth century. Looking ahead to the future of the field, Ernest offers new principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. His proposal is both a historically informed critique of the field and an invigorating challenge to present and future scholars.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	John Ernest
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	328
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-5983-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN:	0-8078-5983-4
Barcode:	9780807859834

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