Slave Narratives - Softcover

Gates, Henry Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931082111 ISBN 13: 9781931082112

Publisher: Library of America, 2002

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 1035 Publisher: Liary of America The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and for laid laid laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger. pain. sorrow. and courage.

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About the Author:

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at Cornell University, and also tenured at Yale, Duke, and Harvard, where he was appointed W.E.B. DuBois professor of humanities in 1991. Professor Gates is the author of Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self, Wonders of the African World, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars, and Colored People: A Memoir. With Cornel West, he co-wrote The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country and The Future of the Race. He is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed edition of Our Nig, an annotated reprint of Harriet E. Wilson’s 1859 novel, The Slave’s Narrative (with the late Charles T. Davis), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Six Women’s Slave Narratives, and In the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1931082111
• ISBN 13: 9781931082112
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Andrews William L.