The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives: Frederick Douglas, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright and LeRoi Jones

Author:   Gordon E. Thompson
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
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9780773415553


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   August 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gordon E. Thompson
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773415553


ISBN 10:   0773415556
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   August 2011
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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"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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[The author] has reopened a huge debate...that will create controversy in discussions of African-American life and culture. (Prof. Robert B. Stepto Yale University) ...bold and original....The book distinguishes itself in what has become an increasingly important field. (Prof. Marcellus Blount Columbia University)


"""[The author] has reopened a huge debate...that will create controversy in discussions of African-American life and culture."" (Prof. Robert B. Stepto Yale University) ""...bold and original....The book distinguishes itself in what has become an increasingly important field."" (Prof. Marcellus Blount Columbia University)"""


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