The assimilationist impulse in four African American narratives : Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, and LeRoi Jones
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The assimilationist impulse in four African American narratives : Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, and LeRoi Jones
Edwin Mellen Press, c2011
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index
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Description
Analyzes themes of assimilation, and the influence of white women, in the African American prose tradition.
Table of Contents
- 1 Frederick Douglass and Assimilation in the 1845 Narrative
- 2 Figures of Acculturation in Douglass, Stowe, and Washington
- 3 The Chameleon of Uplift in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
- 4 Richard Wright and Reactionary Assimilation
- 5 "A Tradition You Ought to Feel Repressed By": The Ex-Assimilation of LeRoiJones.
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