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The primate's dream : literature, race, and ethnicity in America

Title: The primate's dream : literature, race, and ethnicity in America / James W. Tuttleton.
Author: Tuttleton, James W.
Publication: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©1999.

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Description

xxix, 343 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The central concern of James Tuttleton's new collection of literary essays is the work of black writers and the representation of the black experience in America. Mr. Tuttleton approaches the subject with caution, but with his usual clear-eyed judgment, seeking to restore objective criticism to its proper role in the treatment of "minority" writings.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (299-328) and index.

Contents

The mind of a Black abolitionist : Frederick Douglass -- The mind of a White abolitionist : Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- An uncertain abolitionist : Lincoln in fact and fiction -- Lincoln's generals : Grant and Sherman in their memoirs -- Twain's Huck : fresh tears and race flapdoodle -- Pride and shame : the winning of the West -- Ethnic blues and all that multicultural jazz -- Loathing western civilization : Christianity and race in America -- Countee Cullen at "The Heights" -- The Negro writer as spokesman (1969) -- The problematic texts of Richard Wright -- Derek Walcott and the vision of Homeric grandeur -- Ralph Ellison : indivisible man.

ISBN

156663234X
9781566632348

LCCN

98050376

OCLC

ocm40480836
40480836
SCSB-822588

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library