Future of Minority Studies: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Name: Future of Minority Studies: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan US
SKU: 9781349384242
Price: 49.49 USD
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Borgstrom, M.

Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era.