Browsing by Subject "African American literature"
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
(2015)"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions," writes Thoreau: "Let us spend our lives in conceiving then." This dissertation depicts how Thoreau's fellow antebellum antislavery writers discerned the ... -
Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
(2018)This project charts the emergence of a postrace aesthetic in American fiction. It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric ... -
Reading the Street: Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and the Rise of Black Pulp Fiction
(2010)"Reading the Street" chronicles the rise of black pulp fiction in the post-civil rights era from the perspective of its urban readership. Black pulp fiction was originally published in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it ...
