Dislocating the color line
Group identity in literature
Slavery in literature
American literature, african american authors, history and criticism
Race in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
African Americans in literature
Color
African American authors
American literature
Intellectual life
Criticism and interpretation
African Americans
History and criticism
This book provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In readings of slave narratives, "passing novels," and the writings of Ch…
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