The assimilationist impulse in four African American narratives : Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, and LeRoi Jones

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    • Thompson, Gordon E.

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The assimilationist impulse in four African American narratives : Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, and LeRoi Jones

Gordon E. Thompson ; with a foreword by Robert B. Stepto

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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