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Reimagining the Republic - Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgee (Hardcover)
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Reimagining the Republic - Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgee (Hardcover)
Series: Reconstructing America
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Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal,
and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth
century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand
(1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the
civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging
Louisiana's law segregating railroad cars, Tourgee published more
than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as
nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the
first collection focused on Tourgee's literary work and intends to
establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction
about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide
historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to
work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested
in the rights of African Americans, Tourgee was committed to
developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black
perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do
justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he
wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in
this volume are grouped around three large topics: race,
citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface,
Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an
overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we
view Tourgee by highlighting his contributions as a writer and
editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring
the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements,
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the
Literary Work of Albion Tourgee reveals a new Tourgee for our
moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of
Reconstruction.
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