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Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic

Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic

Carretta, Vincent
Gould, Philip

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0813122031
ISBN13: 9780813122038
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Nov 9 2001
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.58
Language: English

Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment on definitions of freedom and liberty, and identify ways in which black literature both engaged with and rebelled against Anglo-American culture.

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