Resistance and reformation in nineteenth-century African-American literature : Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper

An examination of how six prominent African American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world. Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Profession of Authorship and the Cultural Text 2. God’s Economy and Fradors Story 3. Reading the Fragments in the Fields of History 4. The White Gap and the Approaching Storm 5. The Education of Othello’s Historian 6. Unsolved Mysteries and Emerging Histories Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index