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The Wings of Atalanta - Essays Written along the Color Line (Hardcover)
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The Wings of Atalanta - Essays Written along the Color Line (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study
of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading
African-American (and American) literature. This book springs from
two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore,
America is - has always been - an imaginary place with real people
living in it. The second is that slavery and its legacies explain
how and why this is the case. The second premise assumes that
slavery - and, after that fell, white supremacy generally - have
been necessary adjuncts to American capitalism. Mark Richardson
registers these two premises at the level of style and rhetoric -
in the texture as much as in the "arguments" of the books he
engages. His book is written to appeal to a general reader. It
begins with Frederick Douglass, continues with W. E. B. Du Bois,
Charles Chesnutt, and Richard Wright, and treats works by writers
not often discussed in books concerning race in American literature
- for example, Stephen Crane and Jack Kerouac. It brings to bear on
such books as Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, Du Bois's The
Souls of Black Folk, and Crane's The Red Badge of Courage a degree
and quality of attention one usually associates with the study of
lyric poetry. The book offers a general framework within which to
read African-American (and American) literature. Mark Richardson is
Professor of English at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He is
co-editor of The Letters of Robert Frost (Harvard University Press)
and author of The Ordeal of Robert Frost (University of Illinois
Press, 1997).
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