Blacks in Eden: The African-American Novel's First Century

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University Press of Virginia, 1996 - 306 pages

This work examines African-American fiction, discussing how African-American novelists worked with the same mythic materials as their white counterparts, but inverted Anglo-American constructions. Relating the novel to history, it shows how they refuted Anglo-Americans' record of history.

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Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, and his books include Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1783; and Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture.

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TitreBlacks in Eden: The African-American Novel's First Century
AuteurJ. Lee Greene
ÉditeurUniversity Press of Virginia, 1996
ISBN0813916712, 9780813916712
Longueur306 pages
  
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