TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ernest,John
TI  - Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History
SN  - 9780807898505
AV  - PS153.N5 E75 2009
U1  - 810.9896073 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Literatur
KW  - gnd
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Loosed Canons: The Race for Literary History; CHAPTER ONE: Representing Chaos and Reading Race; CHAPTER TWO: Truth Stranger than Fiction: African American Identity and (Auto) Biography; CHAPTER THREE: The Shortest Point between Two Lines: Writing African Americans into American Literary History; CHAPTER FOUR: Choreographing Chaos: African American Literature in Time and Space; CHAPTER FIVE: The Story at the End of the Story: African American Literature and the Civil War; CONCLUSION: Covenants and Communities: The Demands of African American Literature; NotesBibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - Ernest revisits the work of 19th-century writers and activists such as Henry "Box" Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth, demonstrating that their concepts of justice were far more radical than those imagined by most white sympathizers. He offers new principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. His proposal is both a historically informed critique of the field and an invigorating challenge to present and future scholars of African American literatur
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