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By Judith Madera

ISBN-10: 0822357976

ISBN-13: 9780822357971

ISBN-10: 0822358115

ISBN-13: 9780822358114

Black Atlas offers definitive new methods to black geography. It focuses cognizance at the dynamic dating among position and African American literature in the course of the lengthy 19th century, a risky epoch of nationwide enlargement that gave upward thrust to the Civil struggle, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera argues that spatial reconfiguration used to be a severe challenge for the era's black writers, and he or she additionally demonstrates how the chance for brand new modes of illustration will be present in the novel redistricting of house. Madera finds how an important geography used to be to the genre-bending works of writers corresponding to William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. those authors intervened in significant nineteenth-century debates approximately loose soil, nearby creation, Indian deterritorialization, inner diasporas, pan–American expansionism, and hemispheric circuitry. Black geographies stood in for what used to be at stake in negotiating a shared world.
 

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