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Blake; or, The Huts of America - A Corrected Edition (Paperback)
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Blake; or, The Huts of America - A Corrected Edition (Paperback)
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Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most
important African American-and indeed American-works of fiction of
the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape
from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the
United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is
to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions,
both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through
insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an
independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the
more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off
before its final scene. This edition of Blake, prepared by textual
scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the
work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies
contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative
account of the work's composition and publication history. In a
lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the
resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the
interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout
the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair's The
Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and
terrible present. Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected
Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the
history of African American fiction, on the history of the American
novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome
as well the first reliable edition of Delany's fiction.
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