Langley, April C. E.

The Black Aesthetic Unbound Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / April C.E. Langley. - 1 online resource (xiv, 210 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.

The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.

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Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942- Dilemma of a ghost.
Equiano, Olaudah, 1745- Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 --Criticism and interpretation.


Aesthetics, Black.
American literature--History and criticism.--1783-1850
American literature--History and criticism.--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
American literature--African influences.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / L35 2008

810.9/896073