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Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-century African-American Literature : Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
author
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Ernest, John.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
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0878058176
print isbn13
:
9780878058174
ebook isbn13
:
9780585203164
language
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English
subject
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--19th century, African Americans--Social conditions--19th century, Social proble
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS153.N5E76 1995eb
ddc
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810.9/896073
subject
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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--19th century, African Americans--Social conditions--19th century, Social proble
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Resistance and Reformation
In Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature
Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
John Ernest
Page iv
Copyright 1995 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ernest, John. Resistance and reformation in nineteenth-century African-American literature : Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper / John Ernest. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-816-8 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-87805-817-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. American literatureAfro-American authorsHistory and criticism. 2. American literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th century. 4. Afro-AmericansSocial conditions19th century. 5. Social problems in literature. 6. Afro-Americans in literature. 7. Race in literature. I. Title. PS153.N5E76 1995 810.9'896073dc20 95-17113 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
For R. M. Ernest, "... something of a mystery... ," and for my parents, Phyllis and Norman Ernest
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
3
1. The Profession of Authorship and the Cultural Text: William Wells Brown's Clotel
20
2. God's Economy and Frado's Story: Harriet E. Wilson's OurNig
55
3. Reading the Fragments in the Fields of History: Harriet Jacobs's IncidentsintheLifeofaSlaveGirl
81
4. The White Gap and the Approaching Storm: Martin R. Delany's Blake
109
5. The Education of Othello's Historian: The Lives and Times of Frederick Douglass
140
6. Unsolved Mysteries and Emerging Histories: Frances E. W. Harper's IolaLeroy
180
Epilogue
208
Notes
215
Works Cited
243
Index
263
Page ix
Preface
Itwillalwaysbeamystery, history. Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada
In the fall of 1994, in an Introduction to African-American Literature course, my students and I were engaged in the last day of what had proven to be an energetic and detailed discussion of William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, thePresident'sDaughter. Usually, when I have taught this novel in the past, I have had to argue for the value of this textbut not this time. My students had entered zealously into the novel's rich complexity, its subtle strategies; and in the last minutes of our discussion, they wondered about a detail that we were in danger of overlooking. Chapter 27, entitled "The Mystery," tells the story of former slave George Green's chance reunion with his long-lost lover Mary in a graveyard in France. Mary faints when she sees George, who does not recognize her behind her veil. She is taken back to her home, and she might have lost him forever were it not for the fact that George inadvertently leaves behind the book he is reading, identified in Clotel only as Roscoe's LeoX. In the book is George's name, as well as a card of the Hotel de Leon, where George was staying at the timeand thus he is found, and the couple is reunited. My students were by this time accustomed to providential encounters in the literature we were reading, but they wondered at Brown's selection of Roscoe's
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