Monique-Adelle Callahan

Between the Lines

Literary Transnationalism and African American Poetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Between the Lines examines the role of three women poets of African descent--Frances Harper, Cristina Ayala, and Auta de Souza--in shaping the literary history of the Americas. Despite their different geographic locations, each shared common concerns and wrestled in their works with the sociopolitical predicaments of the late nineteenth century. Their verse vigorously examined slavery and confronted the existential struggle against boundaries imposed by race, nation, and gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780199743063
• ISBN-10: 0199743061
• Artikelnr.: 32727690

Autorenporträt

Monique-Adelle Callahan is a lecturer in the Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: What is Between the Lines(?)
* 1: Translations of Transnational Black Icons in the Poetics of
Frances Harper
* 2: Signs of Blood: Redemption Songs and American Poetry Beyond
Borders
* 3: Write the Vision: Gender and Nation Beyond Emancipation
* 4: Prison Breaks: Modes of Escape in Auta de Souza's Poetics of
Freedom
* Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?: the Implications of Textual
Migrations
* Epilogue: Afrodescendente History as/and Transnational Poetics
* Bibliography