Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813122038)

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 cul

Author: Vincent Carretta
ISBN-10: 0813122031
ISBN-13: 9780813122038
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2001
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.36w x 0.95d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1583