Criticism and the color line : desegrating American literary studies / edited by Henry B. Wonham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature / Toni Morrison -- Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, race, and blackface / Eric Lott -- "Who I was": ethnic identity and American literary ethnocentrism / Peter Carafiol -- Reading black, white, and gray in 1968: the origins of the contemporary narrativity of slavery / Ashraf H.A Rushdy -- The politics of mourning: cultural grief-work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern / Jeffrey Steele -- Black and white voices in an early African-American colonization narrative: problems of genre and emergence / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. -- Howells, Du Bois, and the effect of "common-sense": race, realism, and nervousness in An imperative duty and The souls of black folk / Henry B. Wonham -- The remaking of Americans: Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" and African-American musical traditions / Carla L. Peterson -- The master's tools revisited: foundation work in Anna Julia Cooper / Todd Vogel -- The African-American presence in Stowe's Dred / Robert S. Levine -- Sentimental abolition in Douglass's decade: revision, erotic conversion, and the politics of witnessing in "The heroic slave" and My bondage and my freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- The blind leading the blind: the racial gaze as plot dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The heroic slave" / Herman Beavers -- The ghost of race: Edgar Allan Poe and the southern gothic / Teresa Goddu -- Interrogating "whiteness," complicating "blackness": remapping American culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

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