To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature
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To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994, c1993
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注記
Includes bibliographical notes (p. 627-691) and index
"First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 1994"--T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established this country collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to reestablish a steady course for ourselves ever since. To Wake the Nations is urgent and rousing: we have integrated our buses, schools, and factories, but not the canon of American literature. That is the task Eric Sundquist has assumed in a book that ranges from politics to literature, from Uncle Remus to African American spirituals. But the hallmark of this volume is a sweeping reevaluation of the glory years of American literature-from 1830 to 1930-that shows how white literature and black literature form a single interwoven tradition.
By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, Sundquist reconstructs the main lines of American literary tradition from the decades before the Civil War through the early twentieth century. An opening discussion of Nat Turner's "Confessions," recorded by a white man, Thomas Gray, establishes a paradigm for the complexity of meanings that Sundquist uncovers in American literary texts. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's autobiographical books, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Martin Delany's novel Blake; or the Huts of America, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Charles Chesnutt's fiction, and W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Darkwater, Sundquist considers each text against a rich background of history, law, literature, politics, religion, folklore, music, and dance. These readings lead to insights into components of the culture at large: slavery as it intersected with postcolonial revolutionary ideology; literary representations of the legal and political foundations of segregation; and the transformation of elements of African and antebellum folk consciousness into the public forms of American literature.
目次
Introduction PART I: SLAVERY, REVOLUTION, RENAISSANCE 1. Signs of Power: Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass San Domingo and Its Patriots Nat Turner, Thomas Gray, and the Phenomenology of Slavery Ibo Warriors Blackhead Signpost: Prophecy and Terror Frederick Douglass's Revisions Iron Sentences: Paternity, Literacy, Liberty Broken Fetters: The Right of Revolution 2. Melville, Delany, and New World Slavery Memory, Authority, and the Shadowy Tableau The Play of the Barber Ashantee Conjurors: Africanisms and Africanization The Law of Nature or the Hive of Subtlety Caribbean Empires "It Is Wrote in Jeremiah": American Maroons Sugar, Conspiracy, and the Ladder El Dia de los Reyes PART II: THE COLOR LINE 3. Mark Twain and Homer Plessy The Second Slavery The Badge of Servitude: Homer Plessy and the Rise of Segregation Blaspheming Colors, Extraordinary Twins A Whisper to the Reader 4. Charles Chesnutt's Cakewalk The Origin of the Cakewalk Word Shadows and Alternating Sounds: Folklore, Dialect, and Vernacular Uncle Remus, Uncle Julius, and the New Negro "De Ole Times," Slave Culture, and Africa Talking Bones: Conjure and Narrative White Weeds: The Pathology of the Color Line Fusion: The Marrow of Tradition A Great Black Figure and a Doll PART III: W. E. B. DU BOIS: AFRICAN AMERICA AND THE KINGDOM OF CULTURE 5. Swing Low: The Souls of Black Folk In the Kingdom of Culture "This Wonderful Music of Bondage" Bright Sparkles: Music and Text Black and Unknown Bards: A Theory of the Sorrow Songs 6. The Spell of Africa The Color Line Belts the World "Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands": Toward Pan-Africanism Africa: The Hidden Self and the Pageant of Nationalism The Burden of Black Women The Black Christ and Other Prophets Notes Acknowledgments Index
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