Chaotic justice [electronic resource] : rethinking African American literary history / John Ernest.
Ernest, John.
2009
PS153.N5 E75 2009eb
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Title
Chaotic justice [electronic resource] : rethinking African American literary history / John Ernest.
Author
Ernest, John.
ISBN
9780807898505 (electronic book)
9780807833377
9780807859834
Publication Details
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 316 p.)
Call Number
PS153.N5 E75 2009eb
Summary
Ernest revisits the work of 19th-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 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 of African American literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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