TY - GEN AB - This work traces the development of a critical practice within African American literature, art, and activism that identifies and critiques the widespread appropriation of classical tradition to the projects of exceptionalist historiography and cultural white supremacy in the United States. AU - Barnard, John Levi, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PS153.N5 ID - 808563 KW - American literature KW - Classicism in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - Slavery in literature. KW - African Americans LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.001.0001 N2 - This work traces the development of a critical practice within African American literature, art, and activism that identifies and critiques the widespread appropriation of classical tradition to the projects of exceptionalist historiography and cultural white supremacy in the United States. SN - 9780190663629 T1 - Empire of ruin :black classicism and American imperial culture / TI - Empire of ruin :black classicism and American imperial culture / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.001.0001 ER -