Loopholes and Retreats

African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century

• Author(s): John Cullen Gruesser, Hanna Wallinger,
• Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
• Pages: 207
• ISBN_10: 3825818926
  ISBN_13: 9783825818920
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / General , History / African American & Black , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... The essays in this volume explore the loopholes and retreats employed and exploited by African American polemicists, poets, novelists, slave narrators, playwrights, short story writers, essayists, editors, educators, historians, clubwomen, and autobiographers during the nineteenth century. These exciting contributions use historicist, comparative, transnational, literary historical, cultural studies, and Foucauldian perspectives to examine how apparent weakness was turned into strength, defensiveness into offensiveness, and the machinery of oppression into the keys to liberation.